Pelosi backs lowering voting age to 16
Friday, March 15, 2019 | Tag Cloud Tags: News, Washington, Worthy News | Learn about our FREE SYNDICATION Service | Sign up for our Worthy Briefs! | Printer Friendly
(Worthy News) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday she believes the voting age should be lowered from 18 to 16.
The House last week defeated an amendment to a voting and campaign finance bill that would have lowered the legal voting age in federal elections to 16.
“I myself have always been for lowering the voter age to 16,” said Pelosi, D-Calif. “I think it’s really important to capture kids when they are in high school when they are interested in all of this, when they are learning about government, to be able to vote.” [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]
Latest Worthy News
Fair Use Notice:This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.