BREAKING: Senate Republicans block voting rights bills, join with two Democrats to prevent filibuster change
Two Democrats, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, then joined the GOP in opposing changes to the chamber’s filibuster rules.
Republicans voted against advancing legislation that would expand early and mail-in voting and make Election Day a national holiday, among a bevy of other reforms. A motion to end debate on the voting rights measure failed in a 51-49 vote. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., holds his new conference following the Senate Democrats caucus meeting on voting rights and the filibuster on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.The impasse leaves Democrats no closer to passing election reforms they view as vital to preserving ballot access after GOP-led legislatures in states such as Georgia and Texas approved restrictive voting laws last year.
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