Honorable Terry Everett
United States Representative, Alabama, Republican
Terry Everett represented Alabama’s Second District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2009. He was previously a journalist and real estate executive. The following is from the July 13, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. I reluctantly rise today in opposition to H.R. 9, the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act provides important guidelines to ensure the integrity of elections, yet the legislation before us chooses to reauthorize this Act with 30-year old…
