The measure's Republican co-sponsor, Senator John Warner of Virginia, harkened back an earlier era as a metaphor for the bill.

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And you harkened back, as we often hear in Washington, to the days when Republicans and Democrats would go out and have a drink and everybody got along.

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With silk carpets, a crystal Bulgari clock, smoked-glass roof and a chilled-champagne compartment, it harkened back to the elegant Caddys of the 1930s, when Cadillac developed the automotive industry's first V-16.

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When Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the state's voter photo identification measure into law this month, the move harkened back to the type of discrimination Simmons' grandmother and others faced during the tumultuous civil rights era, the state legislator said.

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