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That you allow the same kind of reconciliation of constitutional rights that you allow on budgetary issues. thats all. if you want to have the fill bser in order to bring policy issues forward and have a debate on the policy issues, then thats fine. but not my constitutional rights. and then there another thing. i asked people to look at the history of the 15th amendment and see how that was passed. it was passed on the party line vote. and for mr. manchin to tell me that a vote is not credible ...

Work right, it needs to be bipartisan. im going to remind him. that the 15th amendment to the united states constitution, the amendment that gave the former slaves the right to vote, my four beers. that was a straight party line vote. it was not bipartisan. so this notion, that there has to be bipartisan, in order to be good. lets just say, put into law. that is poppycock. so we need to move forward with this legislation. i would hope that joe manchin would take a look at history and be guided b...

It. today, you have the same response to these folks. are you thinking about this the wrong way. >> absolutely. history ought to be our guide with these issues. the fact of the matter is the 15th amendment for the constitution was passed on a straight line party vote. the 15th amendment is what gives the former slaves and other blacks the right to vote. that was the straight line party vote. for you to argue that it has to be bipartisan or it is not credible, you are flying in the face of histor...

A nation, without the filibuster, and became the strongest country on earth. its only in the 2012 years, but the filibuster is been abused, that america has lost. shine lastly, we have been here before. after the passage of the 15th amendment, guaranteeing the african americans the right to vote, -- all manner of restrictions, from taxes, to literary test forces. in 1890, republicans in the house passed the lodge act, which wouldve -- to prevent southern attacks on democracy. it was filibustered...

Infrastructure talks and so many other things on his agenda. but now it seems in talking to white house officials they understand the urgency. >> here is clyburn, i want to read this, nse, jim co piece ab talk about the belly of the beast, clyburn, third ranking house democrat, took offense to manchins argument that senate rules changes should be bipartisan. he said, quote, we just dont have enough democrats who are in touch with the history of this country where they stop saying some of this fo...

To president bidens first congressional address last year. theres some speculation the senator may run for president in 2024. we should note no republicans have come on record saying theyll support these voting rights bills. on the holiday observing his birthday, the family of martin luther king jr. pleaded with senators manchin and sinema to support the filibuster. >> senators sinema and manchin also say if they -- if the bill doesnt get bipartisan support, it shouldnt pass. the 15th amendmen...

Faces on a number of issues, that is joe manchin, the other joe. he is someone along with senator sinema of arizona who has said they dont want to change the filibuster. when i talk to folks on capitol hill, they say the prospects of the filibuster being changed are minuscule. again, what democrats, especially african american voters in particular who got their right to vote from the 15th amendment which jim clyburn reminded people was not a bipartisan vote, it was a party line vote, that the de...

The conservative right was very much interested in local control. and all we keep sayings statewide intervention into what people can teach in the local and county level. but when you look at what cannot be taught now, you cant talk to students about why we ultimately had the biggest war in american history. what led to it, why we have a 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. one reconstruction was. how texas left mexico and the fact that racism, white supremacy, and slavery were at the corner store en...

Legislation. was a major voting rights march in washington today. including members of dr. kings family. >> let me be clear. when states are engaged in lawless voting suppression, only the law can stop them. senator sinema and manchin also say that if the bill doesnt get bipartisan support, it shouldnt pass. well, the 14th amendment, which granted citizenship to slave in 1868, that didnt have bipartisan support. should formerly enslaved people have been denied citizenship, senator sinema? the 15...

Control. and all we keep sayings statewide intervention into what people can teach in the local and county level. but when you look at what cannot be taught now, you cant talk to students about why we ultimately had the biggest war in american history. what led to it, why we have a 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. one reconstruction was. how texas left mexico and the fact that racism, white supremacy, and slavery were at the corner store enough that. how florida came into the union and andrew can...