President Joe Biden said Thursday he's open to supporting the elimination of the Senate's filibuster to pass voting-rights legislation and other bills that Republicans have blocked.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Thursday he's open to supporting the elimination of the Senate's filibuster to pass voting-rights legislation and other bills that Republicans have blocked.
His remarks came one day after Senate Republicans, for the third time this year, used the filibuster to block voting reform legislation that seeks to overturn restrictions adopted by GOP-led state legislatures since the 2020 election.CNN's Anderson Cooper, host of the town hall, asked the president if he would entertain the notion of getting rid of filibuster on voting rights as one possible issue.
Civil rights leaders and progressive activists have increasingly pushed Biden and Senate Democrats to get behind overhauling the filibuster to pass federal voting-rights legislation to counter the wave of Republican-led state-level voting restrictions. But two moderate Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, have said they oppose filibuster changes.
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