and you have to register 29 days in advance. when there s a runoff, you can t register at any time during the runoff. just giving you a few of the examples. drop off limits, mail in ballot limits. that s the reason legislators in georgia and the two u.s. senators have bravely stood up against the law. that s why we re bringing the rules committee here to hear directly from those involved in trying to stop it. so, senator, is the hearing tomorrow related for the people act, which is passed the house and sitting in the senate or related to the john lewis voting rights advancement act which hasn t been introduced in the house and not anywhere close to being in the senate or is the hearing about both the proposed legislation? great question. one of the things the legislators have said is they aren t going to let they are
on the ground? how do they compare now to back when you were chair of the party? is the terrain the same, or is it more difficult? that s such a perfect way to frame the question, jonathan, because it really isn t the same in any way because we didn t have donald trump in recent previous midterm elections, other than 2018, in which we had a very significant victory and the democrats took the majority in the house. now we have donald trump not only, you know, looming in the future, but he is very much still a present. joe biden has been able to present such an incredible contrast. we have the majority in both the house and the senate. what we have been able to do thus far by really wrestling the pandemic to the ground and even though we re seeing surges, that is in so many republican-led states.
agreement with senator manchin on a different package, which contains so many of the basic voting rights. continuing to finalize that. we have the house starting the john lewis act in the house. here is one thing we haven t talked about. we have the infrastructure packages. the build back better packages. we re working on it with the biden administration. the first is bipartisan and the second most likely, of course, be a democratic package through another process called reconciliation. we can put election infrastructure funding along with housing and child care and the like and do what we can to incentivize mail in balloting. that is no substitution for the people act. it s another vehicle where i can push these provisions and use it as much as i possibly can under the law. final question and real fast. you didn t say excuse me, you didn t say anything about movement on filibuster reform.
of the congressional black caucus who got arrested this week while protesting for voting rights. thank you very much for coming back to the sunday show. thank you, jonathan, for having me. as a member of the house you ve done your work, you voted and passed the for the people act but it s sitting in the senate. why did you find it necessary to get into good trouble on thursday? well, first of all, thank you. i think it s important for the american people to know that we re doing something. that we re fighting for justice. and john lewis s latest book, john lewis carries on. he talked about how hard they fought to change the voting laws and how many times four times under republican leadership restored it. when you look at hr 1 and hr 4, it s all about our right to vote. it s taking away the restrictions and what we want to do is take away those restrictions that republicans
even without the republican s assault on voting rights, democrats would still face an uphill battle in the 2022 midterm election. the new president s party has lost seats in the house in all but two midterm elections since the civil war. add to that redistricting, which favors the gop before a single vote is cast, and it s clear that the democrats razor thin majority is in jeopardy. joining me now, congresswoman debbi wasserman schultz, dccc cochair and former chair of the democratic national committee. and co-founder of strike pac. thank you very much both for coming to the sunday show. congresswoman, i will start with you. you are charged with the team with not only holding the seats in the majority the democrats have in the house, but recruiting people to help increase those seats. how is that going? well, it s going extremely