{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warnock-unveils-comprehensive-plan-to-protect-and-expand-voting-rights-in-america/", "Warnock Unveils Comprehensive Plan to Protect and Expand Voting Rights in America", "2026-07-22", "2026", "2026-07", "Democrat", "Senate", "GA", "Raphael G. Warnock", "W000790", "www.warnock.senate.gov", "warnock", "https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "In a new framework released today, Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock called for Congress to investigate state politicians who rushed to gerrymander maps and eliminate Black majority districts following the Supreme Court\u2019s Callais decision\n\nThe investigations would seek to determine if lawmakers illegally discriminated based on race when drawing Congressional maps\n\nThe Senator\u2019s plan also includes a nationwide ban on partisan gerrymandering, stopping billionaires from buying our elections, and guaranteeing the right to vote for all Americans\n\nICYMI from ABC News: Sen. Warnock urges Democrats to investigate officials who redrew maps\n\nSenator Reverend Warnock: \u201cVoting rights are preservative of all other rights. They are the context in which all other debates take place. Democracy is the very house we live in. It is the whole game.\u201d\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), one of the Senate\u2019s leading advocates for voting rights, today unveiled a comprehensive policy agenda to repair and strengthen American democracy in the wake of escalating attacks on the right to vote.\n\nIn this new policy paper, Senator Warnock argues that Congress must launch investigations into state politicians who redrew the maps after the Supreme Court decision to gut the Voting Rights Act earlier this year.\n\n\u201cAcross the Deep South, partisan actors have manipulated their maps to silence the voices of Black voters. Their names and stories are virtually unknown across the country, and that is one way they escape accountability,\u201d said Senator Reverend Warnock.\n\n\u201cEven this Supreme Court has made clear that intentional racial discrimination remains illegal. We owe it to voters to root out whether any illegal actions or discrimination occurred,\u201d added the Senator.\n\nSenator Warnock\u2019s plan outlines actions Congress should take in the short, medium, and long term. The plan includes:\n\nLaunch Congressional investigations into state politicians who have manipulated maps to silence voters\u2019 voices after the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v Callais. Determine if there is any evidence that these officials broke any laws in their race to gerrymander and silence Black voices.\n\nBan partisan gerrymandering nationwide. If some partisan Republicans refuse to ban this egregious practice, we should put them on record, and we must make them explain why on the floor of Congress and to the American people.\n\nStop billionaires from buying our elections. We need billionaires to spend less on elections and more in taxes.\n\nExpand American democracy. Grant statehood to the District of Columbia and self-determination for U.S. territories.\n\nAmend the Constitution. Enshrine the fundamental right to vote once and for all.\n\nSenator Warnock also framed the push as a call to action for his colleagues in Congress and in the Democratic Party to urgently prioritize the issue of voting rights saying, \u201cNo more excuses: As soon as Democrats hold a trifecta, protecting voting rights must be at the top of the agenda.\u201d\n\nHe also argues that fixing voting rights is a critical step towards addressing affordability and the cost of living saying, \u201cVoting rights are preservative of all other rights. So even as we talk about affordability, as we talk about growing wealth inequality, billionaires getting tax cuts while everyday people can barely afford their lives, all of that brokenness reflects the brokenness of the democracy itself. We have to repair it, and we have to do so with urgency.\u201d\n\nRead the full plan HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-24T07:30:11Z", "2026-07-24T07:31:13Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warnock-unveils-comprehensive-plan-to-protect-and-expand-voting-rights-in-america/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8997777476906776, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}