{"id":1216948,"date":"2022-01-14T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216948"},"modified":"2022-01-14T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:49:29","slug":"ruben-gallego-goes-after-kyrsten-sinema-in-house-floor-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ruben-gallego-goes-after-kyrsten-sinema-in-house-floor-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Gallego Goes After Kyrsten Sinema in House Floor Speech"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fruben-gallego-goes-after-kyrsten-sinema-in-house-floor-speech%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=1216948&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 class=\"subheading\">Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who is seen as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/07\/report-far-left-want-ruben-gallego-take-kyrsten-sinema\/\">future<\/a> primary challenger to Sen.&nbsp;Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), said it is \u201cpast time\u201d for her and her colleagues to pass the \u201cfreedom to cheat\u201d voter bills that would cripple Republican attempts across the country to increase election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;Gallego\u2019s speech on the House floor Thursday, he targeted the senator for her refusal to change the long-established Senate filibuster rule, which requires 60 votes to pass most legislation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t shrink from protecting our democracy and the voting rights of all Americans,\u201d Gallego, who has yet to rule out challenging Sinema for the Senate seat in 2024,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/RepRubenGallego\/status\/1481681795330588679\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s past time for the U.S. Senate and Senator Sinema to do the same\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democracy is under attack, and Congress must respond. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0gLtja6srL\">pic.twitter.com\/0gLtja6srL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ruben Gallego (@RepRubenGallego) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRubenGallego\/status\/1481681795330588679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gallego\u2019s statement, naming Sinema, came after the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/13\/house-democrats-pass-freedom-cheat-voting-bills\/\">passed<\/a> the&nbsp;two \u201cfreedom to cheat\u201d voter bills Thursday: the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The&nbsp;Senate Democrats hoped to do the same but do not appear to have the votes.&nbsp;This is why the Senate Democrats are trying to change the&nbsp;long-established Senate filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to pass most legislation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, Sinema, who has long opposed change to the&nbsp;filibuster&nbsp;rule, reaffirmed her position in a floor speech Thursday, saying,&nbsp;\u201cI will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the view I continue to hold. It is the belief I have shared many times in public settings and in private settings,\u201d Sinema continued. \u201cEliminating the 60-vote threshold will simply guarantee that we lose a critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/11\/chuck-schumers-filibuster-reforms-faces-uphill-climb\/\">pledged<\/a>&nbsp;to force a vote this week on the rule changes to help make Congress\u2019s upper chamber&nbsp;the \u201cworld\u2019s greatest deliberative body.\u201d But,&nbsp;to change the rule, Democrats would need to have&nbsp;all 50 members of their caucus vote in favor of the rule change,&nbsp;which is not possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/13\/sens-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-continue-reject-changing-filibuster-rule\/\">without<\/a>&nbsp;Sinema and&nbsp;Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12443837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1199505506-chuck-schumer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12443837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1199505506-chuck-schumer.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol January 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that U.S. President Donald Trump&#039;s impeachment trial will begin in the Senate on Tuesday, January 21. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Chuck Schumer (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17145842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1320525424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17145842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1320525424.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 28: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) talks with reporters after stepping off the Senate Floor at the U.S. Capitol on May 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Senate decided to postpone debate on the act after a small group of Republicans filibustered the bill overnight. The Senate also failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to end debate on the legislation that would approve the formation of a 9\/11-style commission to investigate the attack lead by Trump supporters on the Capitol to attempt to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Joe Manchin (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gallego, who is up for reelection this year for his House seat, may also plan to primary Sinema in 2024, when she is up for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, he <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/580777-gallego-on-potential-2024-bid-i-never-say-no-to-the-future\">told<\/a> Hill.TV, \u201cI never say no to the future, and the most important thing I always care about is having the majorities we need&nbsp;\u2014 the working majorities we need to accomplish good programs to actually help Americans get into the middle class and prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who is seen as a future primary challenger to Sen.\u00a0Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), said it is \u201cpast time\u201d for her and her colleagues to pass the \u201cfreedom &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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-1216948","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\/1216948","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216948\/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=1216948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}