Font Size: Senate Republicans stopped Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill from advancing on the Senate floor Tuesday, unanimously voting against beginning its debate and therefore essentially killing it. Though every Democrat voted to advance the bill, Republicans labeled it as nothing more than a power grab, with GOP leadership vowing to stop it. The bill received 50 votes in favor, but needed 60 to overcome a legislative filibuster. “There is a rot at the center of the modern Republican party,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “It has poisoned our democracy, eroded faith in our elections, which is so detrimental to the future faith people need to have in this democracy.”