WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) last night delivered remarks on the Senate floor opposing the SAVE America Act. Senator Blunt Rochester discussed American history, her family's heritage, and the urgent need to defend voters' access to the electoral process.
Senator Blunt Rochester was accompanied by a rendering of the document that allowed her formerly enslaved great-great-great grandfather to vote in 19th-century Georgia.
Below are Senator Blunt Rochester's remarks, as delivered:
Thank you, Mr. President.
I rise today not only as a Senator, but as an American. And as a descendant of enslaved men and women, like those who built this chamber...