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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday issued a stern warning to Republicans and Democrat defenders of the filibuster ahead of upcoming votes on Democrats’ election bills: “We are going to vote. We are all going to go on the record.”
Schumer, D-N.Y., made the comments immediately after opening floor debate on a piece of legislation the House passed last week combining two major Democrat-backed elections bills. He promised that the Senate will not only vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, but also on whether to defang the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster if Republicans block them, as they are expected to.
“As we debate these measures, the Senate will confront the critical question: Shall the members of this chamber do what is necessary to pass these bills and bring them closer to the president’s desk?” Schumer said. “Today we have just taken the first steps that will put everyone, everyone on the record.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., waits to speak during an event to mark one year since the attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2022.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)
SCHUMER VOWS TO TURN UP HEAT ON GOP ON VOTING RIGHTS, RISKS EXPOSING MODERATE DEMS ON FILIBUSTER
Democrats say the two elections bills are necessary to respond to GOP-passed election laws in red states that allegedly suppress minority votes. Schumer accused state-level Republicans of “trying to take away the vote from younger, black and brown, elderly, minority and low-income voters.”
The majority leader said the Senate’s upcoming vote on election legislation will force Republicans to “choose which side they stand on: Protecting democracy or offering their implicit endorsement of Donald Trump’s big lie.”
Republicans, meanwhile, say Democrats’ election bills are not only a solution in search of a problem, but that they amount to a massive federal takeover of state-administered…
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