{"id":1216013,"date":"2022-01-14T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216013"},"modified":"2022-01-14T09:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T14:49:22","slug":"analysis-democrats-in-dc-brace-for-two-winter-storms-as-voting-bills-near-certain-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-democrats-in-dc-brace-for-two-winter-storms-as-voting-bills-near-certain-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Democrats In DC Brace For Two Winter Storms As Voting Bills Near Certain Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fanalysis-democrats-in-dc-brace-for-two-winter-storms-as-voting-bills-near-certain-failure%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=1216013&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--><ul>\n<li><strong>As Washington, D.C., prepares for its second winter storm in as many weeks, Democrats in Congress are all-in on their bid to pass their voting legislation and, if it fails, abolish the Senate filibuster to advance it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Their strategy has almost zero chance of success. Though Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has brought his party\u2019s voting bills to the floor throughout 2021, they have faced insurmountable opposition from Senate Republicans every time.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have also said that they will not support gutting the filibuster, further dooming both bills.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cI hope we can get this done, but I\u2019m not sure,\u201d President Joe Biden Biden told reporters Thursday. \u201cIf we miss the first time, we can come back and try it a second time. We missed this time.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Washington, D.C., prepares for its second winter storm in as many weeks, Democrats in Congress are all-in on their bid to pass their voting legislation and, if it fails, to abolish the Senate filibuster to advance it.<\/p>\n<p>Their strategy has almost zero chance of success. Though Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has brought his party\u2019s voting bills to the floor throughout 2021, they have faced <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/chuck-schumer-joe-manchin-senate-voting-rights-bill-mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">insurmountable opposition<\/a> from Senate Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/20\/senate-republicans-block-democrats-compromise-voting-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">every time<\/a>, who have relied on the filibuster to tank the legislation that they describe as a federal takeover of elections that could invite voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Schumer and most Senate Democrats have endorsed scrapping the 60-vote threshold, but in their way stand Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. The two centrist Democrats have said time and time again that they will not support abolishing the filibuster, denying Democrats the unanimous support they need to adopt the change even though they support their party\u2019s voting legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country,\u201d Sinema <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/kyrsten-sinema-senate-floor-speech-filibuster-division-polarization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said on the Senate floor<\/a> Thursday. \u201cTensions are raised within the country, and traditional nonpartisan issues are transformed into partisan wedges. We must address the disease itself, the disease of division, to protect our democracy. And it cannot be achieved by one party alone,\u201d she said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/house-passes-two-democratic-voting-bills-quirk-skirt-one-filibuster-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: House Passes Two Democratic Voting Bills \u2013 With A Quirk That Allows Them To Skirt One Filibuster Vote)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7352695\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7352695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden talks to reporters after meeting with Senate Democrats Thursday. He called on his fellow Democrats to go around Republican opposition and do away with the 60-vote threshold to advance Democrats\u2019 voting legislation. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democrats have argued that their reforms are necessary to counter a number of election reform bills passed in Republican state legislatures across the country in the wake of the 2020 election. While Republicans have said the bills are necessary to protect against potential voter fraud, Democrats have alleged that they amount to little more than voter suppression laws.<\/p>\n<p>But the near-certainty of failure has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/20\/chuck-schumer-democrat-voting-senate-rules-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not deterred<\/a> Schumer or President Joe Biden, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/11\/biden-filibuster-georgia-voting-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsed nuking the filibuster<\/a> on Tuesday so his party could pass their long-sought voting bills in a speech that compared its opponents to Jim Crow-era segregationists. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/10\/mitch-mcconnell-chuck-schumer-voting-bill-big-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: McConnell Blasts \u2018The Left\u2019s Big Lie\u2019 As Schumer Prepares Another Voting Bill Push)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After meeting with House Democrats on Thursday, Biden seemed to acknowledge the writing on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we can get this done, but I\u2019m not sure,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1481710881050435599\">told reporters<\/a>. \u201cIf we miss the first time, we can come back and try it a second time. We missed this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats Thursday passed both as part of a \u201cmessage,\u201d a legislative quirk that allows them to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/house-passes-two-democratic-voting-bills-quirk-skirt-one-filibuster-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skirt an initial filibuster vote<\/a> and be debated on the Senate floor. Had the Senate taken them up that day, it would have granted Schumer enough time to move to end debate and, after Republicans blocked them, move to abolish the filibuster, keeping with his deadline to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/03\/chuck-schumer-democrat-voting-bill-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">force votes on the issue<\/a> before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.<\/p>\n<p>But the Senate did not take them up. That afternoon, Schumer held a vote on sanctioning a Russian gas pipeline open for over seven hours as he worked to secure additional support for the voting bills. Around 10 p.m., he announced that instead of addressing them over the long weekend, the Senate would adjourn and scrap next week\u2019s planned recess, delaying the demise of a strategy that was almost doomed to fail from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer\u2019s reason: \u201cCOVID and another potentially hazardous winter storm approaching the D.C. area this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Washington, D.C., prepares for its second winter storm in as many weeks, Democrats in Congress are all-in on their bid to pass their voting legislation and, if it fails, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"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-1216013","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\/1216013","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216013\/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=1216013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}