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Senate republicans after they voted to block even a debate on the john lewis voting rights act. this is the third piece of voting rights legislation that democrats introduced this year, all of them failing to gain any traction. only one republican, senator lisa murkowski of alaska voting in support of yesterday's bill. after the vote, one democratic, tom carper of delaware calling for apolishing the filibuster writing, quote, i do not come to this decision lightly but it has become here to me that if the phil buster is standing in the way of protecting our democracy then the phil buster suspec...

About voting. and that's not acceptable. >> here we are. a divided senate can't muster the 60 votes needed to allow debate on protecting one of our most precious rights as americans and that is the right to vote and that brings us to the battle over the filibuster republicans had no reason to negotiate since they knew we all knew democrats didn't have the 60 votes they needed. kirsten sinema and joe mansion a diehard defender of the filibuster writing in a washington post op ed it quote compels moderation, more likely compels minority rule. the filibuster allows a determined minority like repu...

6 60 votes they needed. kirsten cinema and joe mansion a diehard defender of the filibuster writing in a washington post op ed it quote compels moderation, more likely compels minority rule. the filibuster allows a determined minority like republicans whose leader says he's 100% focused on stopping president joe biden's agenda. the filibuster allows them to do just that and it been going on for decades. we played this for you a couple weeks ago and i want to play it for you again because i think it is relevant and you need to hear it as often as possible. this is dr. martin luther king junior ...