EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Biden to DavidMuir: 'If the only thing standing between getting voting rights legislation passed and not getting passed is the filibuster, I support making the exception of voting rights for the filibuster.'
ABC News’ David Muir sits down with President Joe Biden in an exclusive wide-ranging interview to speak on the nation’s COVID-19 response and his plans for the future.President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC"World News Tonight" anchor David Muir that he would support changing Senate rules to allow voting rights legislation to proceed – but only if necessary.
Last week, Biden told reporters that"there's nothing domestically more important than voting rights," calling it"the single biggest issue." Under the"filibuster" procedure, most bills need 60 senators to vote to allow them to proceed. So, the 50 Democratic senators currently in the Senate would need at least 10 of their Republican colleagues to join them in voting to allow the voting rights legislation to move forward; so far, that has not happened.
"Right now," Biden told Muir, there are 10 bipartisan senators sitting down, including Joe Manchin, trying to change the Senate rules -- which have been changed a number of times -- change the Senate rules to accommodate being able to bring up and get passage of, up or down, of major pieces of legislation without requiring 60 votes."
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