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Of action today. let me put the question to you. do you think a piece of legislation like this could pass today? and do you think the republican party needs to root itself more seriously in equal protection work in the congress? >> i think a republican party that wants to be taken seriously has to be attentive to the civil rights and civil liberties of all of its citizens. that's always within my sense. i was involved intimately in the last major bipartisan civil rights legislation passed, and that was the americans with disabilities act in 1990. and i saw up close, precisely, how men and weap...

Of action today. let me put the question to you. do you think a piece of legislation like this could pass today? and do you think the republican party needs to root itself more seriously in equal protection work in the congress? >> i think a republican party that wants to be taken seriously has to be attentive to the civil rights and civil liberties of all of its citizens. that's always within my sense. i was involved intimately in the last major bipartisan civil rights legislation passed, and that was the americans with disabilities act in 1990. and i saw up close, precisely, how men and weap...

I think mr. alexander, also, was speaking to today and the lack of action today. let me put the question to you. do you think a piece of legislation like this could pass today? and do you think the republican party needs to root itself more seriously in equal protection work in the congress? >> i think a republican party that wants to be taken seriously has to be attentive to the civil rights and civil liberties of all of its citizens. that's always within my sense. i was involved intimately in the last major bipartisan civil rights legislation passed, and that was the americans with disabilit...