Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday vowed to move forward with a likely doomed effort to change Senate filibuster rules as part of an effort to pass voting rights legislation.



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Schumer vows to push forward with filibuster change: 'The fight is not over'

The Wall Street Journal editorial board called out Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for his "tall tale" about changes in Georgia's voting rules.

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Chuck Schumer's Georgia voting 'tall tale' shows desperation to avoid primary challenge from AOC: WSJ

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., President Joe Biden, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., walk to greet the family of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, at the U.S Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, in Washington.

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Now what? Their agenda mostly shelved, Democrats tout short list of accomplishments

Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema did their thing, and the voting-rights legislation Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer called urgent now looks dead in the water. What comes next?

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So, What Are Democrats Going to Do Now?

And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is still planning to bring to take up voting rights legislation next week, despite Democrats' grim odds.

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Analysis | Jeff Merkley says it's time to talk about the … talking filibuster

“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) key deadline of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday for a Senate vote on election and voting legislation and a bid to change the chamber’s filibuster rules will come and go before the chamber takes up the proposals,” Politico reports.Punchbowl News: “Schumer doesn’t have the votes to win either of those fights.

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Senate Scraps Recess to Take on Filibuster

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

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

During recent weeks, while President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have been building the case for the Freedom to Vote and the John Lewis Voting Rights bills, there’s also been increasing chatter about Republicans finding one election reform they could really get behind: the Electoral Count Act.

[Opinion] Manchin, Sinema just made it that much easier for Trump to seize control

This is an old gag, with Ben Sasse having done the same thing last year with Joe Biden’s 2005 Senate speech in defense of the filibuster.
But it’s a good one. And there’s no shortage...

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Sen. Tom Cotton passionately defends filibuster in speech written entirely from Chuck Schumer's past statements

“Democratic leaders have found a mechanism to enable them to bypass an initial Republican filibuster and debate the party’s sweeping elections reform bills,” Axios reports.“The strategy is the latest example of how Democrats are seeking new ways to try to bypass Senate procedures that are blocking their agenda.

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Schumer Will Try Loophole to Bypass Filibuster

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