hearing on insulins, they just do that for an up or down vote. no, they won t. they can t afford it. what if the next thing you do is you take mit romney at his words, oh, you want $11.25 cents minimum wage in march. let s have hearings on that. there will be 10 republican senators that ll have to vote for $11.25 cents minimum wage. take joe manchin of his words. okay, you say you are for universal pre-k? okay, we ll put it in the recreational bill. it will be an extraordinary entitlement around for the next few years. they re talking about chopping it up and do what bill clinton did to us. give them offers they can t refuse. or even the electoral count act. and mitch mcconnell says that s something they can talk about.
one. only for this package of voting rights bills and it would have basically, if it had been enacted, been implemented, every senator could have spoken twice. that s actually in the senate rules, rule 19. at length. and then there would have been an up or down vote. that, which was a pretty simple way of doing this, and really would have allowed ample time for the minority to make its case, still was a bridge too far for both manchin and sinema. so once again voting rights has died basically on the sword of the filibuster. as a long history, something that jeff merkley talked about eloquently at length as you had mentioned at the beginning of the show. and maybe that will come back. but this is a dark day i think for the senate and for our
we do need to reform and get rid of it. that is something that i believe will eventually happen. but this week, i think the path has to be a voting rights exception, some opportunity to allow these critical pieces of voting rights legislation to get an up or down vote. congressman and maya, appreciate you both as we try to both reflect this day, which matters, and also look beyond history to what s happening right now. i appreciate both of you. coming up, we have the maga riot probe update. neal katyal is here. and later, why democrats say they re going to start the year going on offense. and by the end of the hour the rabbi in the texas synagogue hostage situation discussing that dramatic rescue. stay with us. stay with us
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday night blocked an attempt by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to set up simple majority votes on a sweeping elections bill and legislation to bolster the 1965 Voting
these individual issues and break them up. so that we are voting on them in a way that requires people to take an up or down vote, so that it can t be some massive bill that people are always able to hide behind, the fact it was a massive bill so that s why they voted no. we have to really take these issues on one by one, and as a front-line democrat, running next year, i m not afraid to take these issues on. i think this is what democrats are looking for us to take on. independence, moderate republicans. people are looking for us to take on the tough issues and figure out, how are we going to solve these, not just talk about them. i couldn t agree with you more on that congresswoman. i think a lot of people watching this will be saying they want to see democrats do exactly what you re saying, so i hope the house leadership is watching this and they get to hear from you on the need to get these