Are Voter Registration Drives Being Shut Down?

GOP Leaders Fight Expansion of Children's Health Insurance
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507D.shtml
"Republican leaders of the House and Senate on Tuesday attacked proposals that
call for a major expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, to be
financed with higher tobacco taxes," reports Robert Pear of The New York Times.



Are Voter Registration Drives Being Shut Down?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507F.shtml
"After the wave of successes in 2004 voter registration drives by groups like
ACORN, a half-dozen states passed severe laws that scared off voting activists -
and now the Senate is weighing in," reports Steven Rosenfeld of AlterNet.