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Senate fails to advance sweeping voting rights bill aimed at expanding early voting, registration - USA TODAY

Senate fails to advance sweeping voting rights bill aimed at expanding early voting, registration - USA TODAY

Senate fails to advance sweeping voting rights bill aimed at expanding early voting, registration - USA TODAY
Jun 22, 2021 2 mins, 20 secs

The legislation aims to counter regulations that make it difficult to vote –especially for people of color.

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell told reporters at a Tuesday press conference the Voting Rights Act update is "unnecessary" because only the pre-clearance portion of that law was struck down by the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON – The Senate failed to advance a sweeping voting rights bill Tuesday, stalling the Democratic legislation aimed at countering recent restrictive state measures pursued in Republican-led states.

The For the People Act is largely hailed by Democrats as being necessary because Republican-led states have introduced a slew of new voting restrictions that civil rights groups fear could suppress the vote for marginalized groups and make it harder to vote overall.

The legislation aims to counter regulations that make it difficult to vote –especially for people of color.

Until Tuesday afternoon, questions swirled around Manchin and whether he would join Democrats in voting to advance the bill.

Klobuchar told reporters Tuesday Democrats would emerge "united behind getting votes" on the legislation.

She said Republicans "are wanting to stop the debate, just like they tried their hardest to stop people from voting in Texas" and other states.

Speaking from the Senate floor Tuesday morning,Schumer slammed Republicans ahead of the vote, saying former President Donald Trump's lies about election fraud in the 2020 elections has "spread like a cancer and threatens to envelop one of America’s major political parties." He continued that "it became the match that lit a wildfire of Republican voter suppression laws sweeping across the country.".

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the legislation a "transparently partisan plan to tilt every election in America permanently" in the Democrats' favor when speaking from the Senate floor.

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"I would love to get some support from the other side of the aisle but frankly I don't expect we’re going to get it," Klobuchar said from the floor, prior to Tuesday's vote.

The legislation's expected failure in the Senate would be a blow to Democrats, voting rights groups, and the White House — though progressives have expressed anger he did not advocate more for the legislation. .

She's also spoken to several voting rights advocates including Stacey Abrams, the NAACP's Derrick Johnson, Wade Henderson of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, John Yang of Asian Americans Advancing Justice and John Echohawk of the Native American Rights Fund, the official said

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More than 70 leading companies joined When We All Vote and other voting rights groups in calling on the Senate this week to pass the legislation

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