reticent about this issue. i want to remind your listeners and those looking in, the bill that the president endorsed today, the freedom to vote act, is not the house passed bill. that is joe manchin s bill. he asked for time to put something together that he thought made sense and thought he could get republicans to support. he was given that time and he did it, and now he is supporting the filibuster that s a filibuster of his bill. so, the freedom to vote act is joe manchin s legislation stacey abrams endorsed when he first proposed it. i followed her and supported in support of the bill, and today the president of the united states came out with his
demanded an enemy superpower tear down a wall and liberate a continent. american generations answering the call of their time with american ideals. freedom. liberty. justice. for today s generation of leaders, the call has come again to protect our freedom to vote, to fortify our democracy by passing the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights act because america - john lewis: we are not going back, we are going forward.
before the president arrives on capitol hill for the senate democratic lunch today you have those strong words from kyrsten sinema. so, in fact, it is in many ways sort of a fatal wound for this president. and while the effort, as you saw, in chuck schumer s comments earlier on the floor at the capitol was to try to put this on republicans in many ways instead what it s done is shown the discord and struggles within the democratic party right now. that s a real frustration that the white house is trying to find a way to overcome. i was speaking with white house officials, they say that his remarks to the caucus will be a continuation of what he said very publicly as he hit the lectern, saying he was tired of being quiet. they say this is the right to vote is the right from which all other rights flow. so they re going to try to cast this as a historic moment and try to show that the democrats are united on this issue, but the bottom line is it demonstrates again that discord. peter,
so. why hundreds or tens upon tens of state representatives left the state to stop this legislation, this dastardly legislation. i don t know if these persons will have the right or the ability to fix the issue, but hundreds of ballots are being thrown out or rejected, because it doesn t match the number. and the number is complicated. driver s license, many people don t drive. an i.d. number, some don t have that. even at this time in history. and then, a social security number. some people don t have it committed to memory. a lot of complications and the state system is fractured. it is not working. the secretary of state system is not working. so that speaks to the crucialty of moving on the legislation that is now moving to the united states senate, the freedom to vote act, and the john robert lewis act. i worked for the southern christian leadership conference.
it. they ve created an environment of danger, anything can happen. yeah. this morning, senate democrats begin the formal floor process of trying to pass voting rights legislation. a centerpiece of president biden s agenda. unless there was some secret development in the last few minutes, this is not going to pass. this is not going to pass. but they are going through the motions. first, in a few hours, debate begins on legislation that combines two bills already passed by the house. the john lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act. this would allow the senate to put the bill on the floor directly. and at this point, of course, it is largely theater, as john just underscored. that s because of two people that we ve talked quite a bit about. senator joe manchin of west virginia and senator kyrsten sinema of arizona. they both say they don t support changing senate rules that would let them pass this bill with only democrats. that makes this effort basically loomed fro