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Tinkering With the Voting Age

Tinkering With the Voting Age
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) address a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the We The People Act, on the East Steps of the U.S. Capitol March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Earlier in March, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) proposed an amendment to H.R. 1—the Democrats’ ambitious attempt to “expand Americans’ access to the ballot box”—specifically, to lower the federal voting age from 18 to 16. The amendment passed out of the Rules Committee but failed on March 7 in a full roll call vote.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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