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Paul Mccrary's avatar

Manchin and Sinema were Republicans?

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Kate Fall's avatar

Effectively, on voting rights they chose to vote with the Republicans, which is why neither of them will be re-elected.

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

Same thing on changing the filibuster, but they wouldn't have been the only Dems that would have voted no.

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No Sympathy, No Charity's avatar

There still isnтАЩt a legislative vehicle that moves things with less than 60 votes.

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max skinner's avatar

At the time they were both Democrats who didn't like the spending in some of the economic bills. Sinema has now announced she has no party but mostly votes with Democrats.

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Paul Mccrary's avatar

What does spending have to do with a new VRA?

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max skinner's avatar

Nothing. And that's why the voting rights legislation got nowhere while the economic related bills got passed.

Back when LBJ was president he could leverage other bills to get votes on his favored piece of legislation like the original VRA. In recent years though that sort of pork barreling is not engaged in. One party in particular decided it would no longer deal in that way. Dealing within the bill seems to be acceptable now.

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Paul Mccrary's avatar

It's anti-Black racism. That's the reason why

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