Republicans voted to block a voting rights bill from advancing, a move that could bring new pressure on Democrats to change the Senate’s ‘filibuster’ rule that requires a supermajority of 60 votes to pass most legislation
U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters after a voting rights bill failed to pass the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 20.A bill aimed at thwarting restrictive new voting laws enacted in Republican-led states failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, as Republican lawmakers blocked a Democratic effort to begin debating the measure.
Many Democrats have been calling for a scaling back or elimination of the filibuster to make it easier to pass President Joe Biden’s agenda over the objections of top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell. But with no sign of Republicans willing to compromise, King told reporters on Tuesday that Democrats’ deliberations on next steps “cannot go on for months and months … it’s got to happen in this calendar year” so that states have enough time to prepare for any election law changes before the November 2022 congressional elections.
McConnell predicted that none of the senators in his caucus would support opening a debate on the Democrats’ voting rights bill.
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