{"id":1226426,"date":"2022-01-20T00:23:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1226426"},"modified":"2022-01-20T00:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:23:44","slug":"senate-blocks-bidens-voting-agenda-bipartisan-majority-preserves-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-blocks-bidens-voting-agenda-bipartisan-majority-preserves-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Blocks Biden\u2019s Voting Agenda, Bipartisan Majority Preserves Filibuster"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fsenate-blocks-bidens-voting-agenda-bipartisan-majority-preserves-filibuster%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=1226426&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>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s voting agenda failed in the Senate late on Wednesday night after a bipartisan majority opposed Democrats\u2019 extreme push to use the \u201cnuclear option\u201d and gut the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManchin, D-W.Va., and Sinema, D-Ariz., joined all Senate Republicans in opposing the attempt to alter the Senate filibuster on party lines, resulting in a 48-52 final tally,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/schumer-manchin-sinema-biden-senate-filibuster-democrats-voting-rights-elections\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThat vote followed a failed attempt by Democrats to advance the election bills over the Senate\u2019s 60-vote filibuster threshold. All Republicans opposed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden immediately released a statement afterward, saying, \u201cI am profoundly disappointed that the United States Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am disappointed \u2014 but I am not deterred,\u201d he claimed. \u201cMy Administration will never stop fighting to ensure that the heart and soul of our democracy \u2014 the right to vote \u2014 is protected at all costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris issued a scathing statement following the Senate deciding to block Biden\u2019s agenda, claiming, \u201cSenators voted to preserve an arcane Senate rule rather than secure that fundamental freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people will not forget this moment. Neither will history,\u201d she claimed. \u201cOur Administration will continue to fight to pass federal legislation\u2014and to change Senate rules\u2014to secure the right to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate voted tonight to preserve the 60 vote, bipartisan approval for legislation, saving the institution itself,\u201d Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said in a statement. \u201cSenators Manchin and Sinema demonstrated the courage of their convictions. It was a good and historic night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Senate voted tonight to preserve the 60 vote, bipartisan approval for legislation, saving the institution itself. Senators Manchin and Sinema demonstrated the courage of their convictions. It was a good and historic night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MittRomney\/status\/1484019363300708356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The news comes after Biden had his first press conference in months earlier in the day and was grilled by reporters over numerous issues plaguing the country under his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s failure to pass his voting agenda is just the latest in a long line of failures his administration has suffered in recent months as his approval rating in a left-of-center mainstream poll cratered to 33% last week in a new Quinnipiac University poll.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s approval rating from Democrats sank by double digits from 87% in November to 75% in the poll. The percentage of Democrats who now disapprove of him doubled from 7% to 14%. Only 1 in 4 Independents approved of Biden\u2019s job performance while only 2% (not a typo) of Republicans approved of Biden\u2019s job performance.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-approval-rating-crashes-dips-toward-20s-in-mainstream-poll\">earned<\/a> bad scores on major issues, including:<\/p>\n<p>the economy: 34 percent approve, while 57 percent disapprove;foreign policy: 35 percent approve, while 54 percent disapprove;the response to the coronavirus: 39 percent approve, while 55 percent disapprove.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the poll\u2019s breakdown of racial demographics, the group that least approved of Biden was Hispanics with only 28% approving.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This report has been updated to include additional information.&nbsp;<\/em><\/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 <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s voting agenda failed in the Senate late on Wednesday night after a bipartisan majority opposed Democrats\u2019 extreme push to use the \u201cnuclear option\u201d and gut the filibuster. \u201cManchin, D-W.Va., and Sinema, D-Ariz., joined all Senate Republicans in opposing the attempt to alter the Senate filibuster on party lines, resulting in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1226426","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\/1226426","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226426\/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=1226426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}