President Biden scheduled to give a long-awaited speech on the urgency of passing federal voting rights bills.
Biden will frame upcoming Senate votes on two major election bills — the the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — as"a turning point in this nation," according to an excerpt of his remarks shared by the White House.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who was tasked with leading the administration’s efforts on voting rights, will accompany Biden in Atlanta. A White House official said that in Tuesday's speech Biden will argue that Senate rules have been twisted to allow attacks on the right to vote. The president, who spent decades as a senator before serving as vice president in the Obama administration, will argue for"changing the Senate rules to ensure it can work again and be restored and this basic right is defended," the White House official said.
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