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David Price sees echoes of the 1994 Republican Revolution in the 2022 midterms — and Republicans undoing the progress on voting rights that he witnessed as an aide in the 1960s.

One of David Price’s first experiences in Congress was watching passage of the Voting Rights Act from the Senate gallery in 1964. Then a divinity student at Yale, he describes watching ailing California Congressman Clair Engle being carried in on a stretcher and raising a hand to vote to remove the filibuster so the landmark legislation could pass. Engle died the following month.

GELFAND’S WORLD--Pardon my getting a wee bit cynical here, but I suspect that there are a couple of reasons for the recall attempt, and they arent that he went out to dinner one night without a face mask. (And was seen in the presence of a dozen or so other people instead of the legally prescribed number.) After all, there were the Trump rallies which involved thousands of yelling, maskless supporters and an equally maskless commander in chief. And there was that gathering in Sturgess, South ...

Garcia: For Biden to succeed, the filibuster rule must go FacebookTwitterEmail Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) walks to the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. McConnell on Monday dropped his demand that the new Democratic Senate majority promise to preserve the filibuster — which Republicans could use to obstruct President Biden’s agenda — ending an impasse that had prevented Democrats from assuming full power even after their election wi...