WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. Reverend Warnock issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) laid out a bold vision to expand democracy at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference in a moderated conversation with Symone Sanders-Townsend. Following the Supreme Court decision to gut the Voting Rights Act, Senator Warnock argued that voting rights legislation must be the number one priority for Democrats when they regain the majority in the U.S. Senate. He also argued that passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act should only be the first step in a series of much broader reforms needed to strengthen our democracy.
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