http://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/03/schumer-threatens-vote-on-senate-rules-change-in-january-526394
By Marianne Levine
Politico
01/03/2022 10:48 AM EST
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned Monday that the Senate will debate and vote on changes to the chamber’s rules by Jan. 17 unless Republicans get out of the way on elections reform.
His threat seems inevitable, since Republicans are almost certain to block Democrats’ next attempt to bring up their priority legislation.
“The Senate must evolve, like it has many times before,” Schumer wrote in a “Dear Colleague” letter sent Monday. “The Senate was designed to evolve and has evolved many times in our history. … The fight for the ballot is as old as the Republic.”
Chuckie is attempting a repressive power grab to subvert The Constitution and institutionalize Democrat voter fraud. Fundamentally, the Democrats are trying to usurp the Republic, undo the rights of the people and the States, and give themselves despotic control at the federal level. This is also known as treason.
For months, Senate Democrats have tried to find a path forward on elections reform and voting rights legislation, arguing that doing so is necessary to ensure ballot access in GOP-led states that have enacted new restrictive laws. Senate Republicans, however, are unanimously opposed to the elections reform bill, describing it as nothing more than an attempt by the federal government to take over state-run elections.
Progressives have long argued that Democrats need to nix the legislative filibuster in order to pass the elections reform bill. While both Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) support the legislation, both have vowed that they will not scrap the chamber’s 60-vote threshold. And Manchin has historically opposed using the so-called nuclear option to change Senate rules by a simple majority vote. Instead, he’s insisted that any changes to the rules should be bipartisan. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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