{"id":1115192,"date":"2021-12-13T15:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115192"},"modified":"2021-12-13T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:59:08","slug":"jim-clyburn-says-democrats-will-get-around-filibuster-to-pass-progressive-voting-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-clyburn-says-democrats-will-get-around-filibuster-to-pass-progressive-voting-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Clyburn Says Democrats Will \u2018Get Around\u2019 Filibuster To Pass Progressive Voting Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjim-clyburn-says-democrats-will-get-around-filibuster-to-pass-progressive-voting-expansion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115192&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Democrats would find a way to \u201cget around\u201d the filibuster in order to pass their preferred federal voting legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn made the comments to \u201cAxios on HBO,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/jim-clyburn-voting-rights-filibuster-republicans-5b099f5a-38ed-4284-ac8d-b5301a1ba0c4.html\">telling<\/a> the program that passing the Democrats\u2019 desired legislation \u201cmay require some jiu-jitsu, but that\u2019s not beyond the Senate to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll come up with some way to get around it,\u201d Clyburn added. \u201cWe had better come up with some way to get around it, because this democracy is teetering on collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several bills supported by Democrats have passed the House but stalled in the Senate, including the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Another bill, the For the People Act, failed to pass the Senate over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will find a way to get these voting rights bills passed,\u201d Clyburn told Axios.<\/p>\n<p>The bills pushed by Democrats wouldn\u2019t simply uphold voting rights, but enshrine new rights that Republicans say would ensure Democrats would never lose another election. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, for example, would undo a Supreme Court decision that determined the federal government could not oversee certain states\u2019 voting laws based on decades-old racism claims. Democrats want to restore the federal government\u2019s control over state voting rules, particularly rules they claim keep people from voting.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats particularly want to go after laws like what was passed in Georgia, even though numerous states have similar laws in place. Democrats compared the Georgia elections law, passed earlier this year, to past Jim Crow laws, even though fact checkers determined the law actually <em>expanded<\/em> access to the polls. Democrats make the claim any time Republicans try to include provisions ensuring voters prove who they are by showing identification. Democrats claim this disenfranchises voters, and insist that black people in particular can\u2019t easily get identification, even though this thinking infantilizes the very people Democrats claim to care about. As Ami Horowitz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-black-americans-debunk-liberal-talking-point-that-voter-id-is-racist-theyre-ignorant\">showed<\/a> years ago, black people have no trouble getting an ID to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 other legislation, the Freedom to Vote Act, would ensure the expanded voting rules put in place for COVID-19 \u2013 like mail-in ballots \u2013 remain permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Axios also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/democrats-byrd-manchin-senate-rules-1d0a151f-a1aa-4237-baa1-dbf2caabeb39.html\">reported<\/a> that some Senate Democrats have been working privately to get Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to help the party change Senate rules to get progressive legislation passed. Democrats have insisted these rule changes wouldn\u2019t end the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to pass legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats seem to forget that they did not have much of a mandate after winning control of the White House in 2020. The Senate is evenly divided, with Vice President Kamala Harris deciding ties, essentially putting control of the upper chamber in Democrat hands. Democrats have a slim majority in the House, yet the bills they are intent on passing are not what Americans care about most; they are simply progressive wish lists.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Democrats would find a way to \u201cget around\u201d the filibuster in order to pass their preferred federal voting legislation.Clyburn made the comments to \u201cAxios on HBO,\u201d telling the program that passing the Democrats\u2019 desired legislation \u201cmay require some jiu-jitsu, but that\u2019s not beyond the Senate to do that.\u201d\u201cThey\u2019ll come up with some way to get around it,\u201d Clyburn added. \u201cWe had better come up with some way to get around it, because this democracy is teetering on collapse.\u201dSeveral bills supported by Democrats have passed the House but stalled in the Senate, including the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Another bill, the For the People Act, failed to pass the Senate over the summer.\u201cWe will find a way to get these voting rights bills passed,\u201d Clyburn told Axios.The bills pushed by Democrats wouldn\u2019t simply uphold voting rights, but enshrine new rights that Republicans say would ensure Democrats would never lose another election. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, for example, would undo a Supreme Court decision that determined the federal government could not oversee certain states\u2019 voting laws based on decades-old racism claims. Democrats want to restore the federal government\u2019s control over state voting rules, particularly rules they claim keep people from voting.Democrats particularly want to go after laws like what was passed in Georgia, even though numerous states have similar laws in place. Democrats compared the Georgia elections law, passed earlier this year, to past Jim Crow laws, even though fact checkers determined the law actually expanded access to the polls. Democrats make the claim any time Republicans try to include provisions ensuring voters prove who they are by showing identification. Democrats claim this disenfranchises voters, and insist that black people in particular can\u2019t easily get identification, even though this thinking infantilizes the very people Democrats claim to care about. As Ami Horowitz showed years ago, black people have no trouble getting an ID to vote.Democrats\u2019 other legislation, the Freedom to Vote Act, would ensure the expanded voting rules put in place for COVID-19 \u2013 like mail-in ballots \u2013 remain permanently.Axios also reported that some Senate Democrats have been working privately to get Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to help the party change Senate rules to get progressive legislation passed. Democrats have insisted these rule changes wouldn\u2019t end the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to pass legislation.Democrats seem to forget that they did not have much of a mandate after winning control of the White House in 2020. The Senate is evenly divided, with Vice President Kamala Harris deciding ties, essentially putting control of the upper chamber in Democrat hands. Democrats have a slim majority in the House, yet the bills they are intent on passing are not what Americans care about most; they are simply progressive wish lists.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}