{"id":571029,"date":"2021-06-22T18:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571029"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:36:50","slug":"democrats-sweeping-voting-bill-fails-to-advance-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-sweeping-voting-bill-fails-to-advance-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 Sweeping Voting Bill Fails To Advance In The Senate"},"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\">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%2Fdemocrats-sweeping-voting-bill-fails-to-advance-in-the-senate%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=571029&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>Senate Republicans stopped Democrats\u2019 sweeping voting rights bill from advancing on the Senate floor Tuesday, unanimously voting against beginning its debate and therefore essentially killing it.<\/p>\n<p>Though every Democrat voted to advance the bill, Republicans labeled it as nothing more than a power grab by the majority, with GOP leadership vowing to stop it. The bill, dubbed the \u201cFor the People Act,\u201d received 50 votes in favor, but needed 60 to overcome a legislative filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer acknowledged the bill\u2019s certain defeat on the floor Tuesday, but slammed the GOP for its continued opposition and accused them of seeking to suppress the vote in future elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a rot at the center of the modern Republican party,\u201d Schumer said. \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s big lie has spread like a cancer and threatens to envelope one of America\u2019s major political parties. Even worse, it has poisoned our democracy, eroded faith in our elections, which is so detrimental to the future faith people need to have in this democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7220673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7220673\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7220673 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Mitch McConnell speaks about S.1 ahead of Tuesday's vote. (OLIVIER DOULIERY\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-178x120.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-620x418-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-768x517-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-1536x1035-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-2048x1380-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7220673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Mitch McConnell speaks about S.1 ahead of Tuesday\u2019s vote. (OLIVIER DOULIERY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, however, lamented the bill as \u201cDemocrats\u2019 transparent plan to tilt every election in America permanently in their favor,\u201d and rebuffed progressives\u2019 calls to abolish the filibuster in order to facilitate the bill\u2019s passage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis most sensitive subject would not be the best place to trash the Senate\u2019s rules to ram something through,\u201d he said on the floor. \u201cThe Senate is only an obstacle when policy is flawed and the process is rotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s exactly why this body exists,\u201d McConnell continued. \u201cToday the Senate\u2019s going to fulfill our founding purpose, stop the partisan power grab and reject S.1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have remained opposed to nearly all voting legislation at the federal level, including a compromise proposed by West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017a-15e9-d33b-a37f-1defe4c70000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">included<\/a> priorities sought by both parties including voter ID, expanding early voting, some limits on mail-in voting and a ban on partisan gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate Democrats seem to have reached a so-called \u2018compromise\u2019 election takeover among themselves,\u201d McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/mcconnell-blast-manchins-voting-compromise-same-rotten-core-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said last week<\/a> during his leadership press conference.\u00a0\u201cIt still retains S1\u2019s rotten core. An assault on the fundamental idea that states, not the federal government, should decide how to run their own elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7220387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7220387\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7220387 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233467781-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Joe Manchin chairs a hearing June 15. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233467781-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233467781-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233467781-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233467781-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233467781-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233467781-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7220387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Joe Manchin chairs a hearing June 15. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>S.1\u2019s failure will likely renew calls from progressives to abolish the filibuster. They have argued that the bill is necessary to combat what they deem restrictive voting legislation that multiple Republican-controlled states are adopting. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/democratic-divisions-progressives-joe-manchin-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Progressives Lash Out At Manchin, Harris)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, every Democrat would have to vote to abolish the filibuster for it to actually happen, and Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema have remained steadfast in their opposition. Sinema even authored an opinion piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/21\/kyrsten-sinema-filibuster-for-the-people-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in The Washington Post<\/a> ahead of Tuesday\u2019s vote, reaffirming that she would <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/kyrsten-sinema-reaffirms-opposition-abolishing-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ensure the filibuster remained<\/a> in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould it be good for our country if we [passed the For the People Act],\u201d she wrote, \u201conly to see that legislation rescinded a few years from now and replaced by a nationwide voter-ID law or restrictions on voting by mail in federal elections, over the objections of the minority?\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>Senate Republicans stopped Democrats\u2019 sweeping voting rights bill from advancing on the Senate floor Tuesday, unanimously voting against beginning its debate and therefore essentially killing it.Though every Democrat voted to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281034,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats\u2019 Sweeping Voting Bill Fails To Advance In The Senate","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233598450-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats\u2019 Sweeping Voting Bill Fails To Advance In The Senate","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571029","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=571029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}