Huge Vote:
Senate to vote Tuesday on Democrats While The legislation needs 60 votes to advance.
The Senate is scheduled to vote on Tuesday whether to advance the Democrats sweeping election overhaul legislation an attempt that is likely to be thwarted by a Republican backed filibuster.The Democratic controlled Senate will hold a procedural vote on an amended version of the House passed For The People Act which will require at least ten GOP senators to join all 50 Democrats to clear the needed 60 vote threshold.
The Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the bill an effort to respond to restrictive voting laws in GOP led states like Georgia but again argued that the procedural vote is simply to allow debate and an amendment process that will shape the eventual bill.
It is not a vote on any particular policy. It's not a vote on this bill or that bill. It's a vote on whether the Senate should simply debate voting rights, he said Monday. Former US president Donald Trump, with his despicable lies, has lit a fire under Republican state legislatures and they have launched the most sweeping effort at voter suppression in 80 years.
Schumer pre emptively criticized Republicans for opposing the vote, saying the GOP does not even want to debate the issue. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that the legislation won't advance, vowing to rally enough Republican opposition and arguing the bill was "designed to fail" by Democrats who had intentionally included partisan pieces they oppose.
According to Mc Connell he called the bill a radical proposal designed to rig the rules of American elections permanently, permanently in Democrats favor...!!
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