In shot at Manchin, Pelosi calls for Senate to strengthen voting rights
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday urged the Senate to approve a sweeping expansion of voting protections, dismissing the objections of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) with warnings that the integrity of elections is at stake.
The legislation "must become law in order to respect the sanctity of the vote, which is the basis of our democracy," Pelosi wrote in a Dear Colleague letter to House Democrats.
Passed by the House earlier in the year, the For the People Act aims to lower barriers to voting by simplifying registration, authorizing early and remote voting and restricting the power of states to purge names from voting rolls. It's also designed to rein in partisan gerrymandering and diminish the role of money in campaigns.
Manchin on Sunday stunned Democrats by announcing his opposition to the legislation, also known as H.R. 1, which stands among the top priorities of both congressional Democrats and the Biden administration. Writing in a local paper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail,
Manchin explained that he didn't object to the content of the proposal, per se, but to the absence of even a single Republican supporter.
(So ... Manchin will vote against it because no Republicans are voting for it?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/557309-in-shot-at-manchin-pelosi-calls-for-senate-to-strengthen-voting-rights
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