Honorable John Lewis
United States Representative, Georgia, Democrat
Representative Lewis, of the Fifth District of Georgia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986. He served on the Atlanta City Council from 1981 to 1986. He sits on the Ways and Means Committee, where he is the Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight. 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. Before the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, all across the American South very few African…
