House votes to renew Voting Rights Act, defeats amendments.

The U. S. House of Representatives today, in a long overdue and bold legislative act, voted UNANIMOUSLY, 390-33, to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for another 25 years.
The Act, which supporters demanded citing a few examples that show a continued need for the Act's protection, was passed over the objections of distractors who claimed certain provisions were unneeded.
The distractors claimed that southern states were not being given credit for changes they had made since the 1960s. That controversy centered on two issues -- extra scrutiny for mostly southern states with a legacy of voting discrimination against minorities and a requirement to provide bilingual ballots to citizens with poor English.

While I am NOT too keen on the requirement for bilingual ballots (since it is my belief that immigrants need to learn basic english for their own survival in their adoptive American motherland), I, like many minorities who continue to fight the legacy of evil Jim Crow, expect the Senate to quickly emulate the House's galantary and approve the Act's renewal.
(UPDATE: Senate overwhelmingly approves the bill and sends it to the President who has signed it into law).