Sinema's opposition to filibuster reform puts her squarely 'in McConnell's anti-democracy camp,' said ezralevin.
that will allow Democrats to bring the measure to the Senate floor for debate without needing 60 votes.
"Once again, we in the House have done our job—the fate of our democracy now rests in the United States Senate," Rep. Mondaire Jones following the vote."Time is running out. Reform the filibuster and pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act." "She says she supports the voting rights bills but won't do anything to ensure that they pass. Shame on her,"Tré Easton, deputy director of the Battle Born Collective, said in a statement that"Sinema cannot credibly claim in one breath to 'share the concerns of civil rights advocates' and then ostentatiously protect the filibuster—the specific impediment to addressing their concerns.
Sen. Joe Manchin , another Democratic opponent of filibuster reform, also applauded Sinema's remarks, noting that they hit on"the points that I've been making for an awful long time."Jana Morgan, director of the Declaration for American Democracy, said Thursday that"if Sen. Sinema votes against restoring the Senate to protect the freedom to vote, she will go down in history as the senator who ensured the irreversible fall of American democracy.
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