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Its a shame that the congressional Republican Leadership didnt travel to Selma to pay their respects to their colleague John Lewis on this historic anniversary. A shame and a missed opportunity.

It was Woody Allen who said 80 percent of success is just showing up, and if Republicans want to be successful in attracting more voters, they need to show up at events like this.

Now, there will be Republicans there. Sen. Tim Scott, George W. Bush, Sen Rob Portman, a couple dozen others.

Lest we forget, there would have been no Civil Rights Act and no Voting Rights Act without the Republican Party.

I admire Tim Scott greatly.

He is very good human being, very humble, very focused, and very brave. It takes courage to run in a Republican primary in South Carolina as a black man, but he had that courage and he has done very well. as a result.

I think his election shows that Republicans of all stripes have decided that we should look at the quality of the candidate, not the candidates skin color, when we decide how to vote.

We are still paying the price today for a history of unfathomable discrimination against black people.

You cant routinely underfund schools, break up families, throw people in prison (so they can work for you for free, in many cases), deny opportunities to advance, and then expect the African American community to not sustain lasting damage.

And as a matter of the budget, we are reaping what we sowed. How much do we spend to pay for the prison industry or welfare programs or food stamps?

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Republican leaders should have gone to Selma

TIME Politics Civil Rights House Republican Leader Headed to Selma Kevin McCarthy will be the highest ranking Republican member of Congress to attend the "Bloody Sunday" commemoration. Republican leaders were criticized Friday for being absent from the event

In a reversal of plans, Kevin McCarthy, the second-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, will join around 100 members of Congress who are gathering in Alabama this weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Before McCarthys announcement, no members of the Republican leadership in Congress had been scheduled to attend the event.

Rep. McCarthy, the House Majority Leader, changed his plans late Friday, after a day of widespread media coverage of the lack of Republican leadership in the congressional delegation.

President Obama is scheduled to speak Saturday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., to honor the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights march that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA,) Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA,) Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) are among the bipartisan coalition led by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) in his annual Civil Rights pilgrimage. Lewis was one of the student protestors on the bridge in 1965, and was in the crowd that was attacked by police for demanding voting rights.

In remarks to members of Congress traveling with Lewis Friday evening, Portman recalled how Lewis convinced him to attend the event at the White House Christmas Party last year. Pelosi told the audience that the event was not even bipartisan its nonpartisan.

As many as 100,000 people are expected to convene in Selma Saturday to hear the President speak.

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House Republican Leader Headed to Selma

 Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) attends a press conference following the weekly House Republican conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol February 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee, Getty Images

As part of CBS News' coverage marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in Selma, CBSN will be airing an encore presentation of the hour-long special "The Road to Civil Rights," anchored by Bill Whitaker and featuring new and archival footage from the CBS News library, Saturday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m.

None of the Republican leadership in Congress will be in Selma this weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march to Montgomery.

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103-year-old Amelia Boynton recounts her memories of the "Bloody Sunday" to CBS News' Bill Plante.

House Speaker John Boehner may be missing the ceremonies, but his spokesman Michael Steel, told CBS News' Alicia Amling, "Speaker Boehner was proud earlier this month when the House passed legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the civil rights marchers in Selma 50 years ago, and will be proud to welcome them to a ceremony in the Capitol to bestow this honor." The date for that ceremony has not yet been set.

The Congressional Black Caucus had also urged Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, to try to make it to Selma, as a way of making amends for a speech he had made several years ago as a state lawmaker to a white supremacist group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Scalise, however, has a prior commitment, one that predates his elevation to House leadership and the controversy over his speech, according to Amling.

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Although GOP leadership won't be represented in Selma, the president and at least 90 representatives and senators will attend, among them 24 Republicans have confirmed so far, according to CBS News' Nancy Cordes and Mary Hager. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, who is a co-host for the trip and the only African American in the Senate, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, will make the trip.

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