obstacles to the ballot box, they are also working to interfere with our elections. to get the out comes they want. and to discredit those they do not. that is not how democracies work. we know that if we stand idly by, our entire nation will pay the price for generations to come. today house speaker nancy pelosi contradicted what democratic senator cinema said last week. about the need for bipartisan ship in vote rights legislation. we all want bipartisan ship. we all strive for it. we have a responsibility to do so. but when we cannot have it we cannot confine our democracy to
not going to make a difference. it s joe manchin extending his show. chuck schumer writing democrats will still vote on a revised version of the house passed build back better bill act in the new year. schumer also said the senate will consider voting rights legislation as early as the first week back. he writes i would ask you to consider this question: if the right to vote is the corner stone of our democracy, then how can we in good conscious allow for a situation in which republican party can debate and pass voter up suppression on friday, president biden spoke at the commencement where he vowed to continue to pass new vote rights legislation. this new sinister combination
they can t redistrict their way into fixing a u.s. senate election. they can t really throw up as many blocks in a state election. it is imperative, like secretary kath row said, to pass vote rights legislation, to make sure that people who would be swayed by that, can have easy access to the ballot, to the polls come the midterms. i want to highlight a column from nicole wallace. she writes, the attack on democracy, spearheaded by the ex-president and enable today be gop, represents the greatest threat since 9/11. in many ways it s more difficult to defend against. after 9/11, no one called the hijackers normal tourists. no dun denied the horror. the fight against domestic extremism in offer military, law enforcement and communities, may be the most fraught counterterrorism effort in
with chuck schumer, joe manchin later this week as well as vice president kamala harris. as much as they put this into focus as a real-life issue, the reality is that right now there are not the votes in the senate for any vote rights legislation. they would need to get ten republicans, unless they blow up the filibuster. so far democrats have been unwilling to say that the voting issue in this country is going to be that existential crisis that we need the filibuster to go. while this is certainly going to be a speech that advocates will be looking at, a speech that certainly people in state legislatures are going to be looking at, there s not a lot of tools in the toolbox for the president unless congress finds a way forward. anna, short of blowing up the filibuster, is there an appetite right now among senate democrats to change it? you have congressman jim clyburn who told mike memoli that there should be a carveout for voting