CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta February 20, 2022 22:54:00
Republicans as well as democrats. it's often forgotten that medicare and the voting rights act passed because of republican votes as much as democratic votes. 112 republicans in the house voted for the voting rights act. 60 republicans in the house voted for medicare. so the challenge for lbj was he had southern democrats who were not going to support him certainly on civil rights, but he could pull over republicans to make a governing majority. president biden, when he's differed with the progressive caucus, which has about 95 votes in speaker pelosi's caucus, he doesn't have the luxury of ge...
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