manchin. filibuster is what we have. we need some good rule changes to make the place work better. filibuster doesn t make it work better. to change the rules with two-thirds of the people, changing the rules to make the place work better a couple of manchin s criticism was criticism with georgia activist groups skipping the event in an effort to highlight the need for concrete action rather than speeches, they say. joining me now is the ceo of the national urban league. also joining us now is ari burrman. you ve done a lot of reporting on it being now or never own voting rights. why is the moment so crucial? hey, katy, thank you so much for having me. the clock is ticking here because in 2021, the republican party basically did everything
make things work to advance issues that are important such as the george floyd policing act, making sure that filibuster doesn t get in the way, we know how important this is, and this is important to our entire society. so people have to lean on their members of congress, black, white, republican, or democrat, to understand the significance of letting justice find its place through this process. now, let s go to your home state. congressman, right there where you are where for months and you and other state democrats have been calling on the justice department to investigate the disproportionate use of force and the detention against black residents by the louisiana state police, often with body cam footage that is long withheld from public view, whether it s ronald green s death in custody two years ago, the justice department now investigating whether the state police covered
ida a it has been countless storms, and that s predicted to worsen due to climate change. what duty your constituents weary from seeing their lives disrupted again when they ask you how this plan will improve their lives? i would say that the one thing that we will do more than anything else is make sure that we correct the inequities that we saw during katrina, where communities of black and brown were disproportionately left out of the discussion or certainly not given the same level of resources as others. and we are going to make sure that doesn t happen again. we had great conversations with the president on his recent visit as we walk through communities in my district with the administrator of fema. just a few days ago we had secretary of housing and under development marcia fudge on the ground walking and seeing first
the last six years of obama administration, republicans didn t meet in the middle. nothing got done the last six years on major legislation. four years of the trump administration, nothing bipartisan, a big republican tax bill and that s it for the decade. the senate is not working. the filibuster doesn t work in this environment anymore. and we ve had this environment now for about a quarter of a century. so why not move it from 60 to 55 so the filibuster actually matches the political times that we re in instead of us looking back and saying, things should be like they were in 1961. i think you answered your own question. the senate is not working. will it work to get to 55, who knows. we ve been talking about voting rights, a critical piece of legislation, yet we ve glossed over, mentioned it, one of the real cores of the obama