what was the senate's role in the act?
The act was jointly sponsored by Senate majority leader and Senate minority leader
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was introduced in Congress on March 17, 1965 as S. 1564, and it was jointly sponsored by Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT) and Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL), both of whom had worked with Attorney General Katzenbach to draft the bill's language. 
when did congress pass the voting rights act August 6, 1965 what were the amendments? Liberalized the bailout procedure in 1982 by allowing jurisdictions to escape coverage by complying with the act and affirmatively acting to expand minority political participation and provisions? It contains two types of provisions: "general provisions" and "special provisions" who was the president at the time? Lyndon B. Johnson name a few features of the 1st provision Section 2 prohibits every state and local government from imposing any voting law that results in discrimination against racial or language minorities and the second Section 5 preclearance requirement what was the middle name of the president you just mentioned? Baines
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 [SEP] Senate
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was introduced in Congress on March 17, 1965 as S. 1564, and it was jointly sponsored by Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT) and Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL), both of whom had worked with Attorney General Katzenbach to draft the bill's language. Although Democrats held two-thirds of the seats in both chambers of Congress after the 1964 Senate elections, Johnson worried that Southern Democrats would filibuster the legislation because they had opposed other civil rights efforts. He enlisted Dirksen to help gain Republican support. Dirksen did not originally intend to support voting rights legislation so soon after supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but he expressed willingness to accept "revolutionary" legislation after learning about the police violence against marchers in Selma on Bloody Sunday.