Schumer Vows To Push Forward With Filibuster Change: ‘The Fight Is Not Over’

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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, The Hill reports.

Schumer — speaking at a National Action Network event with Al Sharpton, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and others — acknowledged that the bid to change the legislative filibuster is a “tough fight” but said he and other Democrats would push ahead.

The Democratic leader’s remarks come after Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) reiterated last week that they don’t support changing the Senate rule, which requires 60 votes for most bills to advance.

“I’m going to down to Washington, and we are going to debate voting rights. We are going to debate it, and, in the Senate, you know we need 60 votes to break a Republican filibuster … but since we only have 50 Democrats in our razor-thin majority, the only path forward on this important issue is to change the rules to bypass the filibuster,” Schumer said. He added, in reference to Sinema and Manchin, that “there are two Democrats who don’t want to make that happen. But the fight is not over, far from it.”

{Matzav.com}


5 COMMENTS

  1. Yesterday they concocted an article about Hillary, today it’s Schumer, will tomorrow be Comey, Pelosi or the queen?

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