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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (155711)6/25/2001 11:52:14 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Liberals created the Civil rights movement

So what.

The House of Representatives debated the bill for nine days and rejected nearly one hundred amendments designed to weaken the bill
before passing H.R .7152 on February 10, 1964. Of the 420 members who voted, 290 supported the civil rights bill and 130 opposed it.
Republicans favored the bill 138 to 34; Democrats supported it 152-96. It is interesting to note that Democrats from northern states
voted overwhelmingly for the bill, 141 to 4, while Democrats from southern states voted overwhelmingly against the bill, 92 to 11. A
bipartisan coalition of Republicans and northern Democrats was the key to the bill's success. This same arrangement would prove crucial
later to the Senate's approval of the bill.

The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the
filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the
twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By
contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes.

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