03/07/2024

President Biden Comes Out Swinging

He drew attention to voting rights, equality and senior citizens' needs

On March 7. 2024. President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass two pieces of voting rights legislation &mdash the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

In his State of the Union address, the president said that a “transformational moment of history” happened on this day nearly 60 years ago.

"In Selma, Alabama, hundreds of foot soldiers for justice marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, to claim their fundamental right to vote. They were beaten. They were bloody and left for dead," Biden said.

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