The trip comes as congressional efforts to restore the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act have faltered.
It's "go time" for one Houston college student with early voting underway for the Texas primary election. She works with a youth-led voting activist organization.
"The John Lewis bill means a lot to us because so many of us worked together on the bill with John being the leader and the inspiration," Hoyer said during an interview in Birmingham on Friday. The supporters of the end of preclearance said the requirement - while necessary in the 1960s - was no longer needed. Voting rights activists have warned the end of preclearance is emboldening states to pass a new wave of voting restrictions.ABC News Special Report: Followed by family, the casket of Rep. John Lewis moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse-drawn carriage during a memorial service for Lewis in Selma, Ala.
"The most fundamental right in America is the right to vote - and to have it counted. And it's under assault. In state after state, new laws have been passed, not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert entire elections," Biden said.