WASHINGTON (Thursday, January 16, 2014) -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.), Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) held a press conference to discuss their bipartisan, bicameral introduction of legislation to uphold the Voting Rights Act.