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Vote that would expand access to the ballot box and safeguard against election subversion. according to a democratic source, schumer said, "how can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the republican party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the state level with only a simple majority vote but not allow the united states senate to do the same?" that is in fact exactly what has been happening. 19 states passed 34 laws this year restricting access to voting, according to the brennan center for justice. and out of all the restrictive voting laws passed in the last decade...

House members are separated just by the east lawn of the capitol building much like a college campus with a central grass area. for members of those two bodies, it usually feels like an ocean separates the house and the senate. very few members outside of the leadership ever speak to members of the other body and house members tend to be left in bewilderment of the senate while senators feel the same way about the house. as congressional careers go, congressman pramila jayapal is still new at the job having been there for five years. by new i mean nancy pelosi has been there 34 years, check sc...

Again i'm just a guy asking questions. a whole bunch of democrats out there are angry. to the aforementioned national democrats, they would like to see a level of anger from them. check schumer gets angry in the course of a 3000 words statement and the well of the senate. do you and the beat you cover, when are democrats going to see their president get angry over the kind of thing that happened today more than eight released statement on paper? >> brian, you hit on something there that white house secretary representative jen psaki was asked about today and that was before the for the people ...

>> they don't want to consider the mansion bill? >> i think that's totally wrong. when you take a look what is happening in these states where they're trying to rollback. look, it should be easy to vote without having fraud. okay? it should be made easy and these states now are engaged in making it more difficult. so i just completely disagree with republicans that say that mansion bill doesn't make sense. it makes total sense. it not a total federalizing of elections but what it does do is set guard rails into law and make sure people can vote and secure. i completely disagree with them with ...