{"id":1224570,"date":"2022-01-19T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224570"},"modified":"2022-01-19T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T18:37:20","slug":"democrat-mark-kelly-backs-breaking-filibuster-to-pass-voting-rights-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-mark-kelly-backs-breaking-filibuster-to-pass-voting-rights-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Mark Kelly Backs Breaking Filibuster to Pass Voting Rights Reform"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdemocrat-mark-kelly-backs-breaking-filibuster-to-pass-voting-rights-reform%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=1224570&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1235979468-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said in a statement on Wednesday that he would support changes to break the filibuster to pass two voting rights reform bills.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Tuesday that the Democrat-led Senate will move to strike the 60-vote threshold to advance legislation and instead replace it with a \u201ctalking filibuster.\u201d The taking filibuster would require senators to continuously speak on the Senate floor to avoid ending debate on proposed bills. At the end of debate, the bill would require only 51 votes to pass through Congress\u2019s upper chamber.<\/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>Kelly, who is up for reelection in 2022 in the battleground state of Arizona, said he would back the proposed reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If campaign finance and voting rights reforms are blocked again this week, I will support the proposed changes to pass them with a majority vote. Protecting the vote-by-mail system used by a majority of Arizonans and getting dark money out of elections is too important to let fall victim to Washington dysfunction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If NASA functioned like the United States Senate, they would never get the rocket off the launchpad.<\/p>\n<p>Read my full statement about why I support passing campaign finance and voting rights reforms with a majority vote: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0w2zTIxOTX\">https:\/\/t.co\/0w2zTIxOTX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nUUZ0BdWtF\">pic.twitter.com\/nUUZ0BdWtF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMarkKelly\/status\/1483817557102678021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/20\/exclusive-missing-action-republicans-rip-democrat-mark-kelly-disappearing-public-view-after-getting-elected\/\">marks<\/a> a significant move for the battleground Democrat, as he has typically served as a backbencher. Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) have decried Kelly as \u201cmissing in action\u201d in the Senate and slammed his lack of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action, swiftly chastised Kelly in a statement to Breitbart News. She said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Senator Mark Kelly wants to nuke the filibuster to accomplish one goal: more power. This isn\u2019t filibuster reform\u2014this is a full-blown attack that will nuke the filibuster and take a voice away from millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Americans did not give Washington a mandate to usher in a radical agenda that spends trillions of dollars on the Green New Deal, an election takeover, and other far-Left policies. We will not stand idly by while power-hungry liberals blow up a Senate rule that protects Americans from their socialist vision for our country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__gutter\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__gutter__right\" role=\"presentation\" data-qa=\"message_content\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_section\">Heritage Action urged senators against voting to nuke the filibuster, <a href=\"https:\/\/heritageaction.com\/key-vote\/key-vote-preserve-the-legislative-filibuster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sending<\/a> a key vote alert.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The NRSC noted on Wednesday that Kelly has dodged the question as to if he would abolish the filibuster 16 times.<\/p>\n<p>NRSC press secretary Katherine Cooksey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cooksey__\/status\/1483827026809212933?s=20\">said<\/a> in a statement on Wednesday, \u201cCoward Mark Kelly has finally admitted that he would rather appease progressive activists and Democrat leadership in Washington than stand up for Arizonans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cKelly is no moderate. He is a far-left senator who will do whatever Joe Biden and Washington Democrat leadership tell him in order to pass radically liberal agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said in a statement on Wednesday that he would support changes to break the filibuster to pass two voting rights reform bills. 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