IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 756 
Supporting the designation of September 2025 as ‘‘National Voting Rights 
Month’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 
Mr. VEASEY (for himself, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Ms. SEWELL, Ms. WILLIAMS 
of Georgia, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Ms. MENG, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, 
Mr. FIELDS, Mr. DELUZIO, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. 
MULLIN, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mrs. WATSON 
COLEMAN, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, 
Ms. PLASKETT, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. OLSZEWSKI, Ms. ANSARI, and Ms. 
CROCKETT) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on House 
Administration, Science, Space, and Technology, Oversight and Govern-
ment Reform, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, 
and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the designation of September 2025 as ‘‘National 
Voting Rights Month’’. 
Whereas voting is one of the single most important rights 
that can be exercised in a democracy; 
Whereas, over the course of history, various voter suppression 
laws in the United States have hindered, and even pro-
hibited, certain individuals and groups from exercising 
the right to vote; 
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Whereas, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, Native 
Americans, people who were born to United States citi-
zens abroad, people who spoke a language other than 
English, and people who were formerly subjected to slav-
ery were denied full citizenship and prevented from vot-
ing by English literacy tests; 
Whereas, since the 1870s, minority groups, such as Black 
Americans in the South, have suffered from the oppres-
sive effects of Jim Crow laws that were designed to pre-
vent political, economic, and social mobility; 
Whereas Black Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native 
Americans, and other underrepresented voters were sub-
ject to violence, poll taxes, literacy tests, all-White pri-
maries, property ownership tests, and grandfather clauses 
designed to suppress the right of those underrepresented 
individuals to vote; 
Whereas, as of 2024, 4,404,000 people in the United States 
were disenfranchised from voting because of a felony con-
viction, including 1 in 16 Black adults, due to the shame-
ful entanglement of racial injustice in the criminal justice 
system and access to voting in the United States; 
Whereas members of the aforementioned groups and others 
are currently subject to intimidation, voter roll purges, 
and financial barriers that effectively act as modern-day 
poll taxes; 
Whereas, in 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 
1965 (52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.) in large part to protect 
the right of Black Americans and other traditionally 
disenfranchised groups to vote; 
Whereas, in 2013, in the landmark case of Shelby County v. 
Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), the Supreme Court invali-
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dated section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 
U.S.C. 10303), dismantling the preclearance formula pro-
vision that protected voters in States and localities that 
have historically suppressed the right of minorities to 
vote by requiring those states to receive preapproval from 
the Federal Government for changes in voting laws; 
Whereas, since the invalidation of the preclearance formula 
provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 
10301 et seq.), gerrymandered districts in many States 
go unchallenged and are less likely to be invalidated by 
the courts; 
Whereas gerrymandered districts in many States have been 
found to have a discriminatory impact on traditionally 
disenfranchised minorities through tactics that include 
‘‘cracking’’, diluting the voting power of minorities across 
many districts, and ‘‘packing’’, concentrating the power 
of minority voters into one district to reduce their voting 
power in other districts; 
Whereas the courts have found the congressional and, in 
some cases, State legislative district maps in Texas, 
North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, 
Alabama, and Louisiana to be gerrymandered districts 
created to favor some groups over others, and State legis-
latures with Republican majorities are actively working to 
further gerrymander districts before the next Federal 
election; 
Whereas some States have implemented new voting restric-
tions that make it more difficult to vote, including cut-
backs in the availability of early voting, voter roll purges, 
placement of faulty equipment in minority communities, 
requirement of photo identification, and the elimination 
of same-day registration; 
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Whereas those policies could outright disenfranchise or make 
voting much more difficult for more than 80,000,000 mi-
nority, elderly, poor, and disabled voters, among other 
groups; 
Whereas, in 2016, discriminatory laws in North Carolina, 
Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Texas were ruled to vio-
late the rights of voters and were overturned by the 
courts; 
Whereas the decision of the Supreme Court in Shelby County 
v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), calls on Congress to up-
date the formula in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 
U.S.C. 10301 et seq.); 
Whereas addressing the challenges of administering future 
elections requires increasing the accessibility of vote-by- 
mail and other limited-contact options to ensure access to 
the ballot and the protection of the health and safety of 
voters, and access to the ballot amid a global pandemic 
like the public health emergency caused by the 
Coronavirus Disease 2019; 
Whereas Congress must work to combat any attempts to dis-
mantle or underfund the United States Postal Service or 
obstruct the passage of the mail as blatant tactics of 
voter suppression and election interference; 
Whereas, following the 2020 elections, there has been a re-
lentless attack on the right to vote with more than 400 
bills introduced and at least 44 bills signed into law in 
18 States to restrict the right to vote; 
Whereas there is much more work to be done to ensure all 
citizens of the United States have the right to vote 
through free, fair, and accessible elections, and Congress 
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must exercise its constitutional authority to protect the 
right to vote; 
Whereas National Voter Registration Day in 2025 is Tues-
day, September 16; and 
Whereas September 2025 would be an appropriate month— 
(1) to designate as ‘‘National Voting Rights Month’’; 
and 
(2) to ensure that, through the registration of voters 
and awareness of elections, the democracy of the United 
States includes all citizens of the United States: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses support for a ‘‘National Voting 
Rights Month’’; 
(2) encourages all people in the United States 
to uphold the right of every citizen to exercise the 
sacred and fundamental right to vote; 
(3) encourages Congress to pass— 
(A) the Freedom to Vote Act (H.R. 11, S. 
1, 118th Congress), to set national standards to 
expand voter registration and voting access, ad-
vance election integrity reforms, and protect the 
democracy of the United States; 
(B) the Democracy Restoration Act of 
2023 (H.R. 4987, S. 1677, 118th Congress), to 
restore Federal voting rights to citizens after 
release from imprisonment, honoring the re-
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sponsibilities of citizenship and civic engage-
ment necessary for building healthy and safe 
communities while welcoming the civic contribu-
tions of people returning home after imprison-
ment; and 
(C) other voting rights legislation that 
seeks to advance voting rights and protect elec-
tions in the United States; 
(4) recommends that public schools and univer-
sities in the United States develop an academic cur-
riculum that educates students about— 
(A) the importance of voting, how to reg-
ister to vote, where to vote, and the different 
forms of voting; 
(B) the history of voter suppression in the 
United States before and after passage of the 
Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10301 et 
seq.); and 
(C) current measures that are restricting 
the right to vote; 
(5) expresses appreciation for the United States 
Postal Service for issuing a special Representative 
John R. Lewis stamp— 
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