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January 13, 2022

Biden Meets with Senate Democrats as Push to Pass Voting Rights Legislation Intensifies 
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On Capitol Hill, President Biden is holding a lunchtime meeting today
with the Senate Democratic Caucus. The White House is pressuring
Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to support a change to Senate
rules that would allow Democrats to pass a pair of major voting rights
bills with a simple majority, circumventing a Republican-led filibuster.
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer outlined a plan to
bring the voting bills to a debate using a parliamentary maneuver. The
move would still leave room for Republicans to filibuster final passage
of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote
Act.

On Wednesday, Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch Mc Connell blasted
President Biden over his voting rights speech in Georgia earlier this
week, when Biden accused Republicans of siding with Jefferson Davis over
Abraham Lincoln.

Minority Leader Mitch Mc Connell: "Twelve months ago, this president
said disagreement must not lead to disunion. Ah, but yesterday he
invoked the bloody disunion of the Civil War - the Civil War - to
demonize Americans who disagree with him."

In 2015, an old photo emerged showing Mc Connell posing in front of a
large Confederate flag at a Sons of Confederate Veterans event in the
early 1990s. 


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