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Schumer's 'Shell Bill' To Get Voting Rights To Senate Floor
Take a NASA bill, put voting rights in it, and bring it as a "message from the House."
In a last-ditch push to overcome GOP obstruction, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer late Wednesday unveiled a plan to temporarily evade the filibuster and bring voting rights legislation to the floor of the upper chamber for debate.
Outlined in an internal memo distributed to congressional Democrats, Schumer's strategy involves several obscure procedural maneuvers that began Wednesday night in the House, which moved just before midnight to replace the text of an unrelated NASA bill with language from the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/01/schumers-shell-bill-get-voting-rights