Fight Over Landmark Voting Rights Bill Begins As GOP Claims Voter Suppression Isn't A Problem
The Senate on Wednesday took its first step toward an anticipated showdown over the chamber’s filibuster rules as the Senate Rules & Administration Committee held the first hearing on a major voting rights, campaign finance, gerrymandering and ethics reform legislative package.
The For The People Act is the top legislative priority of congressional Democrats, and was introduced as the first bill in both the House and Senate. Its expansion of voting rights is touted as the most sweeping expansion on the issue since the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The House passed the bill early this month, with one Democrat joining all Republicans in voting no.
But in the Senate, Democrats are up against Republicans who insist that voting problems ― including the slew of restrictions being pushed at the state level ― don’t exist at all. Without reform to the filibuster, a procedure that lets senators block legislation that holds less than 60 supporters, it doesn’t stand a chance.
“States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in testimony. “This is a solution in search of a problem.”
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/for-the-people-act-senate-filibuster-203733961.html
Mealy mouthed Moscow Mitch lies.
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