Senate Democrats' most forceful and perhaps last push for major voting rights legislation this year was blocked by a Republican filibuster on Wednesday afternoon.
The procedural vote to move forward with the Freedom to Vote Act failed despite Democrats' effort to craft a compromise bill led in part by Sen. Joe Manchin. The West Virginia Democrat had hoped to get enough GOP votes to overcome a filibuster, but in the end no Republicans voted to advance the legislation. -snip
The Freedom to Vote Act would have, among other things, established Election Day as a national holiday, set national minimum standards for early voting and voting by mail, and created new requirements for groups not currently required to disclose their financial donors. It also included standards for states that require voter identification, something that was a priority of Manchin. -snip
Election Day being a Federal Holiday (as it should be) was almost a thing until Republicans stopped it.
Probably. I've learned long ago to be suspicious of anything rob and other leftists post.
No doubt he is putting some kind of spin on what is really happening or conveniently leaving out important details.
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
You get your talking points from CNN, The Young Turks, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and Rachel Maddow lol.
They always put their left-wing spin on everything.
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
Last edited by eThneoLgrRnae on Oct 21st, 2021 at 06:06 PM
God, I'm glad I don't live in the States these days. Republicans have just become scary, denying truths right to our faces and creating their own clownhouse reality.
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Oct 21st, 2021 04:25 PM
Spot on!
