It’s The Anniversary Of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill

[Tx4obama]

The Senate passed it 73-27.

Article here: http://www.alan.com/2011/06/19/its-the-anniversary-of-the-1964-civil-rights-bill/


p.s. It's still June 19th here in Texas for another eight minutes ;)


Edited to add:
More info regarding the passage of the bill in the Senate here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_act_of_1964#Passage_in_the_Senate

[SDuderstadt]

1. Ironically...

it would not have passed without the votes that Minority Leader Dirksen rounded up on his side of the aisle and, in fact, he marshalled a larger percentage of the GOP Senators due to the intransigence of the Dixiecrats.

Suffice it to say that Mitch McConnell is no Everett Dirksen.