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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Sunday “there is no more important bill” to preserving American democracy than her party’s sweeping federal voting rights legislation, arguing that the Republicans are committing “a legislative continuation of what they did on Jan. 6” through voting reforms in their own states.
With Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., essentially ending President Biden’s chances to pass Build Back Better, the Democrats have pivoted to establishing a federal election framework, which Republicans say is little more than an “election takeover scheme.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a memorial service for the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 8, 2022.
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Like other Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Church Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Pelosi also tied the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to the need for federal election reform to “protect our Constitution and our democracy.”
“What the Republicans are doing across the country is really a legislative continuation of what they did on Jan. 6, which is to undermine our democracy, to undermine the integrity of our elections, to undermine the voting power, which is the essence of a democracy,” Pelosi said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
“There is no more important bill that enables us to support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” she continued. “They are not only suppressing the vote, they are nullifying elections, saying, ‘Well it doesn’t matter who gets more votes, it matters who the three people we appoint to analyze that, what they decide.’ We cannot let that happen. … This legislation is the most important, and we have to keep working in order to get the job done.”
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