So he said, I want to get on, I want to debate the bill and I want to offer my amendments to the bill. Most of us on the Republican side have the same opinion about the bill. We think [the voting rights bill] was a major encouragement by the federal government into voting rights that normally are handled by the states. We didn't like the idea that they had changed the Federal Election Commission from a bipartisan number to a partisan number that would have been controlled by one party or the other all the time. (06:40–17:34)
CLAIM
Asserts that the voting rights bill represents federal overreach into state-managed voting rights.
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