House passes voting rights package, setting up Senate filibuster showdown

As the House passes voting rights package, a Senate showdown looms

The good news for voting rights advocates is, the House passed a key package today. The bad news is, Kyrsten Sinema won't budge on the filibuster.

Kyrsten Sinema backs Senate filibuster in blow to Joe Biden amid voting rights showdown

The Arizona Democrat asserted the filibuster helps protect the nation from "wild reversals" in federal policy.

House passes voting legislation, sends bill to Senate

House passes voting legislation, sends bill to Senate 1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:03,990 >> On this vote the yeas are 220. 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,860 >> The nays are 203. The motion is adopted Without objection 3 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:16,230 a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. The motion. 4 00:00:16,230 --> 00:00:17,030 Is. 5 00:00:17,730 --> 00:00:23,190 >> Over the next few days. The United States Senate will face a critical and …

U.S. voting-rights bill passes in the House, but Senate prospects remain unclear

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON - A Democratic bill intended to protect voting rights passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, though its chances were unclear in the narrowly divided Senate, where Republicans are unified in opposition. The bill is a maneuver by Democrats in which the House repackaged and passed the two elections-related bills as one, sending it to the Senate

House Democrats pass 2 voting-rights bills, setting up a showdown in the Senate

Congressional Democrats used a creative procedural workaround to fast-track consideration of the bills — but they still face long odds in the Senate.

House passes voting legislation ahead of Biden's visit to the Hill

Biden's trip to Capitol Hill comes after the president called on the Senate to change its filibuster rules in order to pass voting legislation.