Levin, a former congressional aide, drew a contrast with Barack Obama, who organised a debate with Republicans about his signature healthcare law, and Bill Clinton, who gave 18 speeches to promote a North American free trade agreement.
According to Chuck Schumer, “Democracy is in danger. Fascism is on the rise. Time is running out. It’s time for the president to end his game or we will all lose. The White House has defended Biden’s efforts.”
Press Secretary Jen Psak told reporters that “this is going to be the battle for her presidency today” and that “she will continue to advocate for the rogue pulpit and for every lever in government to move forward.” Extending early voting in presidential and congressional elections, facilitating voting by mail – used by record numbers during corona virus pandemic.
Democrats’ goals include expanding early voting in elections for president and Congress, making it easier to vote by mail – used by record numbers during the coronavirus pandemic – and improving the transparency of certain campaign contributions. They are also aiming to remove party bias from the once-a-decade drawing of congressional districts.
Democrats also accuse Republicans of seeking to reduce polling hours and locations and drop boxes, and tightening voter ID laws, as a direct response to Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen by voter fraud.
Harris, who is leading the White House’s voting rights push, told reporters after the Senate vote: “It is clear, certainly for the American people, that when we’re talking about the right to vote, it is not a Republican concern or a Democratic concern, it is an American concern.
“It’s about the American people’s right to vote without discrimination. It’s about their purposeful access to the right to vote because no one is arguing, I’m not sure, even if all Americans have the right to vote.” The question here is whether there is real access to or obstruction to the voting process. She reiterated her support for the Biden Act and the lesser John Lewis Voting Rights Act. : “The fight is not over.”
Earlier in Tuesday’s remarks on the Senate floor, Schumer likened Trump to “a petulant child” He said: “Because of one man’s lie, Republicans are now committing the heinous act of snatching votes from millions of Americans; it is more difficult for them to vote, and many, many will not.” From Montana, from Florida to Iowa, Republican state legislators have tried to suppress the most integrated voters in 80 years. ”Schumer said these government houses are making it easier to own a gun instead of voting.
Republican lawmakers find it harder to vote early, harder to vote by mail, harder to vote after work. They are making it a crime to give food or water to voters waiting in long lines. They are trying to make it difficult for black churchgoers to vote on Sunday. “And they’re actually making it easier for unelected judges and biased election boards to get the election results out, a demog like Trump, maybe he himself, trying to thwart our election.” That’s what Trump tried to do in 2020.
Republicans have argued that the law would violate the rights of states through the law for the public and that state action is needed to prevent fraud, although there is no evidence of widespread concern. Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell dismissed the bill in a speech to the Senate floor as a “seizure of party power.”
Although the outcome of Tuesday’s vote had been a foregone conclusion, Democrats were relieved that they could present a united front when Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, agreed to vote for the procedural motion after weeks of suspense.
The outcome intensifies pressure for Democrats to abolish the filibuster so legislation can be debated and passed by a simple 51-vote majority – with Harris holding the tie-breaking vote. But Manchin and some colleagues have deep reservations about doing so.
Kyrsten Sinema, a Democratic senator from Arizona, wrote in the Washington Post: “The filibuster compels moderation and helps protect the country from wild swings.”
Biden spoke with Manchin and Cinema at the White House on Monday, aware that Congress was threatening to disrupt its agenda. “We had a great conversation, a lot of respect; we have to keep working,” Manchin told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. Advocacy groups and activists have criticized Republicans for obstructing reforms.
Advocacy groups and activists expressed disgust with Republicans for obstructing the reforms. Stephany Spaulding, a spokesperson for Just Democracy, said: “Senate Republicans’ filibuster circus today was shameful, and a direct attack on the millions of Black and Brown Americans who this broken body denied equal voting rights.
She added: “It is equally shameful that a handful of Senate Democrats turned their backs on the very people who elected them, and permitted Republicans to use the Jim Crow filibuster to inhibit progress on equal voting rights, instead of eliminating this procedure.”
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