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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vows to vote on amending Senate filibuster rule before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday if Republicans continue to block the voting rights bill.

Bipartisanship is great — until it isn’t. Democrats today have the narrowest combined House and Senate majority in American history, and the party’s left wing is defining its agenda.

WASHINGTON - Days before the anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the Senate will vote soon on ea

Rights or else the democracy could truly be threatened and i think schumer will try to push that forward in the weeks ahead. >> any likelihood of any republican support on an effort like this? >> conceivably there could be, but im not aware of who that republican is right now. as you know, its a 50/50 divided senate and the republican senators especially on issues like this have been pretty in lock-step behind their leader mitch mcconnell. i think its unlikely to expect that support and democrat...

Change the rules in midstream, to wash away 200 years of history. they want m to make this country into a banana republic. it will be a doomsday for a democracy if we do. >> laura: a doomsday for democracy. well, his move to end the filibuster, now an act of pure desperation. he knows he doesnt have the votes the old-fashioned way that they will get wiped out in november under the old rules. so, like a dictator he referenced in the old clip, they do it across the globe. what do theyes do? they c...

Tonight, senate majority leader chuck schumer saying he will force a vote to drastically change the senate filibuster rules if republicans keep blocking efforts to advance sweeping voting rights legislation. an effort to delegitimize our election process and the senate must advance systemic democracy reforms to repair our republic or else the events of that day will not be an aberration. they will be the new norm. but for schumers plan to work, he needs the support of two skeptical democrats, se...

Part of the problem. the president admits he is shocked how quickly prices are jumping. >> president biden: i was sitting in my kitchen yesterday and my wife was there with her sister and a friend and said, do you realize it is over $5 for a pound of hamburger meat. $5 compared to $4 before the pandemic. >> after a snowy week, lawmakers go back to work today, democrats say they will focus on efforts to pass voting reform legislation and schumer says the senate will vote to alter or kill the fili...

Nationalize election laws. the g.o.p. has to say no to ballot harvesting and no to voter i.d. laws and no to covid as an excuse to change the rules. the mail-in ballot push has already begun in new york and this has been their plan all along. instead republicans have to make sure that we return to the same common sense principles that govern our elections for decades. and we will know the results on election night, oh, yes, we will. speaking of rule changes, here is the newest threat for freedom...

Change the rules in midstream, to wash away 200 years of history. they want to make this country into a banana republic. it will be a doomsday for a democracy if we do. >> laura: a doomsday for democracy. well, his move to end the filibuster, now an act of pure desperation. he knows he doesnt have the votes the old-fashioned way that they will get wiped out in november under the old rules. so, like a dictator he referenced in the old clip, they do it across the globe. what do they do? they chang...