Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer delayed voting rights votes until next week as Democrats face a fight over weakening the filibuster
Senate Democrats will delay votes on a pair of voting rights bills, which they will try to pass next week.
Republicans contend the bills would give the federal government too much power over elections in states. "Make no mistake, the United States Senate will — for the first time this Congress — debate voting rights legislation beginning on Tuesday," Schumer said Thursday night. "Members of this chamber were elected to debate and to vote, particularly on an issue as vital to the beating heart of our democracy as this one. And we will proceed."
"Eliminating the 60-vote threshold on a party line with the thinnest of possible majorities to pass these bills that I support will not guarantee that we prevent demagogues from winning office," Sinema said Thursday as she reiterated her stance.
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