Just no telling how this vote would have been different were they in power. Yeah, right.
CAPITOL HILL On Capitol Hill, what was to have been a simple renewal of the historic Voting Rights Act has become snarled in the heated debate involving immigration.
Conservative House members tried today to drop a requirement in the 1965 law that bilingual ballots and interpreters be provided where large numbers of citizens speak limited English. The House Judiciary Committee rejected the effort by a vote of 26 to nine.
Later, the committee voted 46-to-one to extend the law, due to expire next year, for 25 more years. Only Iowa Republican Steve King, who offered the amendment to strike the bilingual ballots, voted no.
Republicans voted eleven-to-nine against King's amendment. Democrats opposed it unanimously.
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