Schumer says Senate will vote by Jan. 17 on changing rules if GOP continues to block voting-rights

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Washington Post

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Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) told colleagues Monday that the chamber would vote no later than the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on changing Senate rules if Republicans continue to block voting-rights legislation.

The announcement of the planned action by Jan. 17 represented Schumer’s strongest endorsement yet of trying to muscle through legislation that has been stymied because of Senate rules requiring a 60-vote threshold.

“We hope our Republican colleagues change course and work with us,” Schumer said in a letter. “But if they do not, the Senate will debate and consider changes to Senate rules on or before January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to protect the foundation of our democracy: free and fair elections.”

For the strategy to succeed, however, Schumer will need buy-in from two fellow Democrats — Sens. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) — who have voiced skepticism or opposition to changing Senate procedures in a way that would be needed to push voting-rights priorities across the finish line.

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[MadLinguist]

1. there has got to be a skelton in Manchin's closet that can be leveraged

to goad the man into doing the right thing. As for Sinema, finding a skeleton in the right pharmaceutical's closet should do the trick to get them to hoist her by her needy petard.

[GB_RN]

2. If Schumer Says They're Going To Vote By Then...

I have to wonder if he's gotten the votes rounded up for the rules change on a contingency scenario where the GOPQ filibusters "one more time".

That being said, if the Democrats don't get some legislation passed that overturns all the hackery that's being done by GOPQ legislatures/Red States, then as a nation, we're screwed in the Fall...and definitely screwed in 2024.

[LenaBaby61]

3. The USA will be screwed forever if the GQP US Taliban Party steals our government in total ....

Within the next few years.

[BradAllison]

4. (DU Moderate) "Ooooh, I just dooon't know......"

"Voters who hate our party. will never vote for us and want us jailed will be against thisssss........ooooohh....Could cost us the midterms.....oooooh"

We NEED to push forward. Our Democracy is on pace to be dissolved.