Voting bill collapses, Democrats unable to change filibuster

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BREAKING: A push to advance President Biden's voting bill collapses as Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema side with Republicans against changing Senate rules.

making it more difficult for Black Americans and others to vote by consolidating polling locations, requiring certain types of identification and ordering other changes.

Both Manchin and Sinema say they support the legislation, but Democrats fell far short of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill over the Republican filibuster. It failed 49-51 on a largely party-line vote. Durbin said he would have asked McConnell, “Does he really believe that there’s no evidence of voter suppression?”McConnell, who led his party in doing away with the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees during Donald Trump’s presidency, warned against changing the rules again.

Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus walked across the Capitol building for the proceedings. “We want this Senate to act today in a favorable way. But if it don’t, we ain’t giving up,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the highest-ranking Black member of Congress. “We don’t need, we do not need a repeat of 2020 when by all accounts our last president, having lost the election, sought to change the results,” said Murkowski.

 

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Joe Manchin trying to put a foot fwd to oneday run for president, but vote him out

primary their asses.

It was Joe Manchin's bill

The correct headline is Joe Manchin helped sink HIS OWN LEGISLATION that he promised he could get 10 Republicans to vote for.

2 traitors.

No Democrat sides with these Republicans.

...As obstructionists Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema side with Republicans against changing Senate rules.

Frees up time to focus on sending Trump to jail.

Yeaahhhh

Gee I wonder why they keep trying to Federalize the election and infringe on state rights.

jjim_smith

Get out of town!! Let’s go Brandon I guess

It never had a chance

Why can't they just pass the voting right bill without disturbing the filibuster like they've done on other things

_Politics

They just voted to kill democracy

Sinema and Manchin have made McConnell the de facto leader of the Senate.

Expel .SenatorSinema Expel .Sen_JoeManchin

Ese cabron de manchin jodio mamabicho

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