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Please, senator, do not suggest in any way that that word means that i was hostile to the act. i said then and i say now it was necessary that the act be intrusive because it had to force change and it wouldn't have happened without the power of the federal government. that is a plain fact. >> i'm suggesting an alternative path forward for the voting rights act not singling out one state or region but would have allowed the act to continue to be noif the face of the recent record showing ongoing discrimination and the right to vote in different states across the country, now no longer isolated...