to find consensus with his friends across the aisle and republican party. he would not support a bill unless you could get some republican votes to. in the spirit of bipartisanship, put his money where his mouth is. republican senator molesky from alaska call on both sides to come together to vote on legislation. specifically the reauthorization of the voting rights act. which remember back in the day, was a huge bipartisan event. not so much anymore. so this was joe manchin's grand voting. he said this was too ambitious, we need to o'rourke or cross the aisle, he tempered's parties big ambitious goals to bring the republican senators into the fold. surely he thought there's only two major political parties in the united states, they will come together with me on this, you can probably see where i'm going here. today the senate voted on a motion to proceed to debate on the freedom to vote act.