senate democrats today are set to forge ahead with their doomed election overhaul legislation. democrats continue to rage against senators sinema and manchin. more moderates in the party during events honoring mlk junior yesterday democrats called out the pair to change what civil rights leaders call the jim crow filibuster. the senator s commitment to preserving the filibuster. vice president kamala harris here. bill: 100 members of the united states senate. i won t absolve nor should any of us absolve any member of the united states senate from taking on the responsibility to follow through on the oaths they all took to support and defend the constitution of the united states. harris: also letting it rip you might say senator raphael warnock who made history last year when he was elected georgia s first black senator. i submit that members of the senate regardless of their party no longer have to ask
this is moving ahead. diane gallagher is following this and joins me now. it was a 38-day standoff. it is now over. now what? reporter: well, i think we re seeing how it s playing out in the moment. right now the public testimony is underway in this house select committee. now, members of the general public were coming in to make their feelings on these bills known. we re told to prepare for senate bill one. that election overhaul legislation that passed a couple weeks ago in the texas senate. but at the very last minute, the house said they were going to substitute for their own version. that s an identical bill to the one brought up in the house back during the first special session in july. at that same time, they limited the amount of time that those on the committee could question the bill presenter. and one interesting moment during this, and the reason they said they were limiting the time