During Friday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, the network’s White House communications director, Kate Bedingfield, said Biden would do whatever it takes to pass voting rights legislation with or without a filibuster.
Host Joe Scarborough asked Ms. Bedingfield, “I’m curious, would it be necessary for the administration for the president to make sure that voting rights legislation (H.R. 1) is passed, given the existing filibuster rules?”
Bedingfield replied, “Yes, he will. People saw Biden’s speech on this yesterday, and it was very powerful. Biden said that what we’re seeing here is sick and this is not America. The idea that the Republican Party is working to try to take away people’s right to vote, to actively prevent people from voting, goes against everything Americans believe in, it goes against the very foundation of the democracy that America was founded on. So, yes, Biden will work to move forward and make sure that this legislation becomes law. Biden has talked about this a lot on the campaign trail. I mean, Biden believes that this is a fundamental right for all Americans, nothing is more important than the right to vote, and Biden will push for and see this legislation passed.”
From Apollo.com.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, March 3, passed the HR1 election reform bill, also known as the For The People Act, or what Republicans call the “Corrupt Politicians Act. The purpose is to allow the Democratic Party to always dominate the election, in practice there are 37 key rules to ensure that the Democrats do not lose any election, and always in power. The bill now awaits a vote in the Senate.
Filibuster (Filibuster), in the U.S. Congress, refers to the disadvantaged party, in the inability to veto specific bills and personnel appointments, marathon speech, can not progress to the voting stage, the Time limit is up, the bill will be invalidated, the need to go again to the side of the bill process.
Currently, the Senate is tied with 50 seats each for Republicans and Democrats. The last time there was a tie in the Senate was in 2001, when a filibuster rule was created to distribute power between the Senate and committees, requiring a 3/5 vote of senators (60 votes) to end debate on major legislation, or else the debate would have to be allowed to continue.
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