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Essentially what it does is it is a massive expansion of voting rights and it deals with finance reforms. manchin was the lone democratic holdout on that bill so he's been working with several other members, including senator tim cane, as well as his own leadership, trying to figure out if there was a compromise that he could work out with leadership to ensure that he would support a vote, a procedural vote next week. schumer, the majority leader, has been saying this is crucial and he needed to put it on the floor by the end of this work period. however, just because manchin supports a propos...

It is a sprawling piece of legislation that deals with the issue of voting as well as ethics and finance reforms and one of the things that joe manchin announced yesterday is he is circulating a list of changes he wants to make to this bill. and one of them, i thought was really striking. he essentially argues that he wants to make sure that voter i.d. is required with some exceptions that people could use a utility bill or some other kind of form of residency to prove they are who they say they are when they go to the polls. one thing that's happening behind the scenes is democrats are trying...