The two moderate Senate Democrats joined Republicans in striking down an attempt to change the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.
The two moderate Democrats said that while they support the legislation, they don't support nuking the Senate's 60-vote threshold—even after PresidentSinema, who represents Arizona, said in a floor speech that gutting the filibuster would only worsen the disease of"bitter tribal partisanship" in the United States.
The votes Wednesday, while expected, mark the end of the Democrats' original plan for voting rights reform.that the best way forward may be to forge ahead with a more limited bill or update the 1887 Electoral Count Act. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi talks to reporters during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill on January 20, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Pelosi discouraged infighting between members of the Democratic Party as Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema take the heat for opposing filibuster reform to pass voting rights legislation.
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