Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., each testified before the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday to state their respective party’s stance on Democrats’ sprawling election and ethics bill.
During a markup hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building, Schumer and McConnell each accused the other’s party of trying to weaponize voting laws to expand its political power, according to Politico.
“So, why are our friends on the other side so desperate to push it through?” McConnell said at the markup meeting Tuesday. “What are Democrats so hell-bent on doing whatever it takes to rewire our Democracy on a thoroughly partisan basis?”
Progressives have made the legislation a top priority, but the expansive proposal the committee took up faces significant pushback, from state election officials to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
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