Pres. Biden on future of voting rights legislation: 'As long as I have a breath in me, as long as I'm in the White House, as long as I'm engaged at all, I'm going to be fighting to change the way these legislatures' have moved on the issue.
-- a rule that requires 60 votes, rather than a simple majority of 50, to advance most legislation -- if the bills could not be advanced another way.
Even as Biden headed to Capitol Hill Thursday, Sinema made a Senate floor speech saying she would not support changing the rule. With prospects of passage so uncertain even after his fiery speech, the president is risking his political capital, particularly as he struggles to get another domestic priority -- his"Build Back Better" social legislation -- through the Senate.
"The Senate will finally debate voting rights legislation, and then every Senator will be faced with a choice of whether or not to pass the legislation to protect our democracy," Schumer wrote in a memo to the Democratic Caucus Wednesday.
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