May 12 2021, 11:07 AM
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(Bloomberg) A Senate panel deadlocked on a Democratic bill to set federal standards on voting access, with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell leading a day-long effort to thwart legislation he called a partisan power-grab.
(Bloomberg) A Senate panel deadlocked on a Democratic bill to set federal standards on voting access, with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell leading a day-long effort to thwart legislation he called a partisan power-grab.
After hours of debate on amendments, the Senate Rules Committee tied 9-9 along party lines late Tuesday on a vote to advance the legislation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would have to force a vote of the full Senate to bring it to the floor, but its unclear that heâll have the support necessary with some Democrats expressing reservations about the bill.
Ted Cruz sure is projecting a lot onto the Democrats voting rights bill
The GOP finds it impossible to imagine that the Democrats are acting in good faith. How telling.
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May 12, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC
The Senate Rules Committee met Tuesday to mark up its version of the For the People Act, the major voting rights and election integrity bill that Democrats have been trying to pass since 2017. The debate went better than I expected, but on the whole, to paraphrase the Bard, the GOP doth protest too much, methinks.
This isn t to say that all of the GOP senators proposed amendments were bad or that the bill as introduced is perfect. But to hear Republicans tell it, the legislation was designed specifically to prevent the GOP from winning any election ever again. Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., at one point called the bill a power grab in search of a crisis and several times warned that the Democrats were trying to turn the country into a one-party state, l
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The Senate Rules and Administration Committee Tuesday defeated an amendment from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to Democrats sweeping elections bill.
McConnell s amendment, which was defeated on a 9-9 party-line vote, would keep the Federal Election Commission (FEC) at six members rather than five, which the Democrats bill would do if enacted.
The bill, S. 1 in the Senate and H.R. 1 in the House, would change the composition of the FEC from six members with three from each party to five members with two from each party and a fifth not associated with either party but chosen by the president.