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Schumer Vows To Press Ahead With Filibuster Reform: ‘We Will Never Give Up’

Schumer Vows To Press Ahead With Filibuster Reform: ‘We Will Never Give Up’

Schumer Vows To Press Ahead With Filibuster Reform: ‘We Will Never Give Up’
Jan 18, 2022 48 secs

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pledged to move forward with his party’s plans to change the chamber’s filibuster rules and pass expansive voting rights legislation, despite ongoing stonewalling by two members of his party, Sens.

“I’m going down to Washington, and we are going to debate voting rights.

Sinema surprised members of her party and President Joe Biden last week when she took to the Senate floor and told her fellow Democrats she would not support changing filibuster rules, saying she believed it would lead to “spiraling division.”.

Manchin has also repeatedly said he doesn’t support changing filibuster rules, reiterating his position last week that he would not vote to do so.

Biden has pushed for the expansive new voting rights bill, which has already passed in the House along party lines?

It has been hailed by voting rights advocates, but Sinema and Manchin have said they don’t support changing Senate rules to push it through

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