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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWAPO: All eyes on Manchin after Republicans again block voting rights legislation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/voting-rights-manchin-senate/2021/10/20/caba5168-31a6-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.htmlIf theres anything worthy of the Senates attention, if theres any issue that merits debate on this floor, its protecting our democracy from the forces that are trying to unravel it from the inside out, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday.
But the realities of the Senate with a razor-thin Democratic majority and a united Republican minority empowered by the long-standing filibuster rule requiring a 60-vote supermajority to advance most legislation continue to make progress difficult and wholly dependent on the willingness of key Democratic senators to change their views on modifying the Senates rules.
On Wednesday, Republicans blocked the latest attempt by Democrats to bring up a voting rights bill. The vote was 49 to 51 and 60 votes were needed to advance the legislation. Schumer joined Republicans in voting no for procedural reasons.
Wednesdays vote was meant, in part, to demonstrate the depth of the Republican opposition to one of the holdouts over changing the filibuster rule, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), who played a leading role in crafting a narrower alternative to the sprawling bill that Senate Republicans blocked in June.
ColinC
(8,289 posts)drray23
(7,627 posts)When he saw it would not pass he voted no in order to be able to reintroduce it later.
ColinC
(8,289 posts)From reintroducing it?
He needs to have voted against it to be able to reintroduce it.
ColinC
(8,289 posts)dsc
(52,155 posts)a motion to recommit which has to be filed by someone who was on the winning side.
ColinC
(8,289 posts)Thanks!!
Jilly_in_VA
(9,965 posts)The spotlight. I think that's his whole game. He wants the spotlight on him. That's it.
JustAnotherGen
(31,811 posts)I wonder if Warnock and Ossoff are telling him "I told ya so".
wryter2000
(46,037 posts)Unfortunately, if he finally is convinced, we'd still have to get Sinema.
JustAnotherGen
(31,811 posts)They are dooming themselves to a blind hatred from non-white Americans (the rising Majority). Looks to me like they are trying to create an Apartheid system in the USA.
wryter2000
(46,037 posts)They'll block anything that helps non-white people, especially where voting is concerned. They'd like to go back to the 1950's.
I was a little kid in Queens in the 50's, and it was totally segregated. We had no non-white neighbors at all. Not one.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,008 posts)Blame the 50 who voted against it, not two that voted for it.
JustAnotherGen
(31,811 posts)Allows him to bring it up for a vote again.
I will sleep better when we have a one time lift of the filibuster to guarantee all Americans the right to vote -and the DOJ the laws to hammer the States making partisan, race-based voting laws.
Fullduplexxx
(7,857 posts)Again