WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing stark criticism from civil rights leaders, senators return to Capitol Hill under intense pressure to change their rules and break a Republican filibuster that has hopelessly stalled voting legislation .

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[Washington, 17th, Reuters] --On the 20th, the US Senate Judiciary Committee will discuss a bill to crack down on app stores with strong market power, such as Apple and Google under Alphabet. The name of the bill is "Open App Market Law". Has the support of bipartisan groups. Senator Richard Blumenthal (Democracy) and Senator Marsha Blackburn (Kyowa) revealed on the 17th.

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US Senate Committee to deliberate app store reform bill

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had some sharp words Monday for the senators protecting the filibuster amid the voting rights debate, suggesting they are debasing the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. just as the country is honoring the civil rights legend.



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A bipartisan group of senators is traveling to Ukraine this week to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials amid escalating tensions between Kyiv and Moscow.

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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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Democrats in the U.S. Senate hope to begin a debate on two voting rights bills on Thursday.

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U.S. Senate to vote on changing the filibuster this week, Senator Sinema remains a no vote

CHICAGO (CBS) — Civil rights groups teamed up Monday morning for a car caravan calling on the U.S. Senate to pass voting rights legislation immediately.“No matter what you do to stop us. you will not stop the vote.  The vote is alive. the dream is alive and the push is on,” said Bishop Tavis Grant of Rainbow P.U.S.H.

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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is relying on a tried-and-true strategy of raising boatloads of money while keeping his head down on hot-button issues in a bid to win his Senate race, a contest that is a lynchpin for both parties’ strategies to win control of the upper chamber.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted on Sunday that in 2022 Americans will vote "not based on what happened on January 6th, but based on this failed Democratic radical agenda," claiming that because of that agenda the nation has fallen into "the most dangerous times since the late '30s."

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open casket…

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