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[Opinion] Schumer delays voting rights votes until next week as Democrats face filibuster fight

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer delayed votes on a pair of voting rights bills late Thursday, pushing back a debate over the chamber's rules. The New York Democrat said the chamber would not take up the legislation until Tuesday, citing "the circumstances regarding Covid and another potentially hazardous winter storm" Democrats will lack a simple majority until he can return to the evenly split Senate.

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Schumer delays voting rights votes until next week as Democrats face filibuster fight

Senate Republicans are set to block two voting rights bills, leading Democrats to consider filibuster changes to pass them.

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Schumer postpones filibuster, voting rights fight to next week

It was the perfect storm for the Senate on Thursday, resulting in disaster for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plan to have a showdown over the filibuster and voting rights and elections reforms by next Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But COVID-19, a looming winter storm, and a narcissist with rumored delusions of grandeur came crashing in to derail that plan.Schumer announced on the floor Thursday night that the Senate would not work over t…

2 years ago·United States

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