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And that should put a spike through it assuming no Republicans cross over to promote SB1 in the Senate. Joe Manchin told ABC News yesterday that the Democrats’ attempts to push through their version of the House’s radical HR1 voting reforms kept ending up in partisan deadlocks in committee. Manchin wants to start over with a bill that has more bipartisan buy-in:
Sen. Joe Manchin is breaking with Democrats and throwing his weight behind a more measured voting rights bill in lieu of the sweeping Democratic voting reform bill that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has labeled a top priority of the caucus.
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Mitch McConnell (L). Charles Schumer
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) offered fiery criticism of Republicans on Tuesday for efforts around the country to tighten voter laws amid unproven claims made by former President Trump that the 2020 election was stolen.
Schumer, speaking at a Senate Rules Committee meeting on a sweeping elections overhaul bill, accused Republicans of trying to act upon the “big lie that the election was stolen” to “placate” and “please” Trump.
“Unfortunately, the big lie is spreading like a cancer among Republicans. It’s enveloping and consuming the Republican Party, in both houses of Congress,” Schumer said.