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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday night blocked an attempt by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to set up simple majority votes on a sweeping elections bill and legislation to bolster the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which would have allowed Democrats to pass the two bills without GOP support.
Schumer, on the Senate floor, detailed his offer: allowing the two bills to need only a simple majority to pass instead of needing the normal 60 votes to advance in the Senate. In exchange, Democrats would sign off on holding simple majority votes on nearly 20 bills that Republicans placed on the Senate calendar, which makes them available for a vote but doesn't guarantee they'll get one.
"We Democrats aren't afraid of these votes. So what I proposed to the Republican leader is that the Senate hold up-or-down votes at a majority threshold on each of the Republicans bills he has outlined tonight as well as the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act," Schumer said from the Senate floor.
McConnell, however, rejected Schumer's offer without elaborating on his objection. Under the Senate's rules, any one senator can try to set up a vote or pass a bill, but because it requires signoff from the full Senate, any one senator can also object and block the request.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-blocks-simple-majority-votes-on-dems-voting-rights-bills/ar-AASDUDr
Wouldn't expect anything less form the old turd hole.
JT45242
(2,314 posts)This seems like the kind of thing that "Rant" Paul would kill so Moscow Mitch would have plausible deniability.
Lovie777
(12,392 posts)what a suprise
PortTack
(32,820 posts)If turtle turned this one down not accepting Schumers offer..well then so be it. Doesnt mean there wont be a vote
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FloridaBlues
(4,013 posts)Probably not a peep from manchin or others when this happens.
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