Senate Plans Out Next Steps In Voting Rights Push

January 12, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 11: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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January 12, 2022

After President Joe Biden’s big voting rights speech in Georgia Tuesday, Senate Democrats are mapping out a strategy to hold votes on rules changes.

The obstacles — as they were in the beginning, are now and ever shall be, Amen — are Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Manchin has expressed openness to small technical changes to the filibuster; it’s unclear where Sinema is, aside from recently expressing support for the 60-vote threshold.

Expect a day of meetings with these two while we dig for clues to illuminate Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) plans. Schumer has promised a rules vote no later than Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, on Monday.

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After President Joe Biden’s big voting rights speech in Georgia Tuesday, Senate Democrats are mapping out a strategy to hold votes on rules changes.

The obstacles — as they were in the beginning, are now and ever shall be, Amen — are Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Manchin has expressed openness to small technical changes to the filibuster; it’s unclear where Sinema is, aside from recently expressing support for the 60-vote threshold.

Expect a day of meetings with these two while we dig for clues to illuminate Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) plans. Schumer has promised a rules vote no later than Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, on Monday.

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  1. Schumer and Biden walk the Green Mile.

  2. So your world view is based on King’s “damned if you do. Damned if you don’t” novel?

    No wonder you express such Misery.

  3. Avatar for gr gr says:

    Any chance of one or two gooper senators jumping in?
    Will butterflies fly out my butt?

  4. Schumer to Manchinema:

    “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

    Manchinema to Schumer:

  5. Avatar for zandru zandru says:

    Well, you’ve got to respect Schumer’s persistance, if not his effectiveness.

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