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Pelosi backs lowering voting age to 16

By Susan Ferrechio
Published March 14, 2019 3:55pm ET
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Pelosi backs lowering voting age to 16
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters during her weekly news conference, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 7, 2019. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday she believes the voting age should be lowered from 18 to 16.

The House last week defeated an amendment to a voting and campaign finance bill that would have lowered the legal voting age in federal elections to 16.

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