The Washington Post offers this news update. I have had the Senate debate on in the background (it is on C-SPAN 2, available over the internet), and I caught this quote from Sen. Lindsey Graham, excerpted in the Post report:

“Some of the data in the Act is based on ’68, ’72 turnout models” that showed many blacks were not voting in the South, Graham said. “And the Act does not recognize the progress, particularly in my region of the country, and I think it should have.”
But Graham also planned to vote for the bill.
“We’ll just move on,” he said, adding: “South Carolina has make great strides forward in terms of African American voting participation and minority African American representation at all levels of state government and local government. And my state is better for that.”