For the first time this Congress, the Senate is expected to debate voting rights legislation.
Martin Luther King III, along with other civil rights leaders, marched in Washington, D.C., to demand the Senate move on voting rights reform legislation.For the first time this Congress, the Senate is expected to debate voting rights legislation on Tuesday, a day after Democrats failed to meet their hopeful, symbolic, deadline to pass an election reform bill by Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
To go it alone, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will move to challenge the chamber's filibuster rule with a simple majority vote, and aides say that rules-change proposal will come as early as Wednesday.MORE: Sinema, Manchin reject Biden push to change filibuster for voting rights But Democrats need the support of their entire party to change the rule in the chamber where the hold the slimmest of majorities. And conservative Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kysrten Sinema have made clear their opposition to changing the filibuster, even though both support the underlying legislation, so the effort is expected to fail -- a massive blow to Democrats as President Joe Biden approaches one year in office on Thursday.Martin Luther King Jr.
Republicans, meanwhile, have argued Biden went too far in his attacks on the GOP, tying their obstruction on the bill to Jim Crow-era racism, with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slamming Biden's speech from the Senate chamber as"profoundly, profoundly un-presidential" and as a"rant" that was"incoherent, incorrect and beneath his office.
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