LIVE: Senate Continues Voting Rights Debate After Republicans Block Key Bill

(June 23) Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ expansive overhaul of U.S. election laws from advancing to the chamber floor, dealing the Democratic majority a defeat on a chief 2020 campaign promise and underscoring their limited power in a chamber evenly split between the two political parties.

The bill failed to advance on a 50-50 party-line vote, short of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia made a last-minute decision to side with his party, providing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sought-after Democratic unity after weeks of negotiations with him.

Also on Wednesday, senators are expected to consider judicial nominations, including Deborah Boardman to serve as a U.S. District Court judge for Maryland and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to be U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the Seventh Circuit.

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[smittywinxroller]

When are the Dems going to give this crap up? They have to start serving the people, not themselves.

[adamreily]

It's blocked, so this just means they are wasting their time. But they are "working", so gotta pay them the big bucks still

[quedawg]

It’s not remotely about voting rights. Who doesn’t have the right to vote now that will if they pass this? NO ONE!

[jessicaprintke]

God is a good God He understood he had to make us hungry so that we can get off our butts

[jessicaprintke]

You say I work 84 hours a week. Money is a motivator. You have to have motivation to go to work. Especially when your job is laborious. But when the motivation for their needs are already met there's No more Motivator. Not everybody in this world aspires to great heights. A lot of people are just happy getting by. And what's worse is that the money is going to come so easily to them so as they would not even think twice about wasting it. The probably spended on Amazon or fireworks. Or go to Disneyland. But things like bills food and responsibilities at home where they were ignored for years as people just went with the flow. Giving them free money it's like drug money it never lasts. I don't think any of you guys really care but I'm gonna say it anyway

[jessicaprintke]

Some people will work and for them the extra money would be a blessing and it would help them improve their lifestyle Unfortunately I care And I know for a fact that this money will also cripple a lot of peopleAnd I know for a fact that this money will also cripple a lot of people

[JesusSavesFromSin]

Jesus Christ saves from sin.
Romans 3: 23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Hebrews 9: 27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Isaiah 64: 6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Revelation 21: 8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Romans 5: 8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3: 16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 14: 6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 10: 9-10.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Jesus said John 5: 24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
1John 5: 10-13
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Ephesians 2: 8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Romans 8: 1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 15: 3-4
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
2 Corinthians 5: 21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.