; Whereas gerrymandering has a discriminatory impact on traditionally disenfranchised minorities, including by— (1) diluting the voting power of minorities across many districts (known as cracking ); and (2) concentrating the voting power of minorities in 1 district to reduce the voting power of minorities in other districts (known as packing ); Whereas the courts have found that the congressional and, in some cases, State legislative district maps, in Texas, North Carolina, Florida, and Wisconsin were gerrymandered with the intent of interfering with the constitutional right to vote; Whereas the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), calls on Congress to fix the formula in the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Whereas some form of a restrictive voting law has been instituted in 33 States since 2013; Whereas restrictive voting laws have resulted in cutbacks in early voting, voter roll purges, placement of faulty equipment in minority communities, a requirement of photo identification, the procurement of which amounts to a modern day poll tax, and the elimination of same-day registration; Whereas more than 80,000,000 minority, elderly, poor, and disabled voters could be disenfranchised by restrictive voting laws; Whereas in 2016, discriminatory laws in North Carolina, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Texas have been ruled unconstitutional and overturned by the courts; Whereas there are local elected officials who refuse to adhere to Federal court decisions that have struck down suppressive voting laws instituted since Shelby County v. Holder; Whereas there is much more work to be done to ensure all citizens of the United States have the right to vote; Whereas National Voter Registration Day is September 25; and Whereas the month of September is an appropriate month to designate as National Voting Rights Month : Now, therefore, be it