President Joe Biden said he supports changing the Senate filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation.
In an interview with ABC News, Biden was asked if he was prepared to accept fundamental changes to the filibuster rules in order to pass a voting rights bill.
" Biden's comments to ABC were stronger than what he said during a CNN town hall in October, when he was asked: "When it comes to voting rights, just so I'm clear though, you would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on that one issue, is that correct?" "And maybe more," Biden answered.
With his signature social spending and climate bill blocked in the Senate, Biden and Democrats are focusing on passing select parts of their progressive agenda.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., on Monday said Democrats have "lots of ways" to pass two voting rights bills - including by changing the rules governing a filibuster.
"Most of us would argue that the only thing that it takes to get the Senate working better is behavioral change but he is trying to come up with some fairly, I would say, creative ideas about the rules," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the No. 2 Senate Republican, told The Hill.
The Democrats' John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named after the late Georgia congressman who made the issue a defining one in his career, would update to the landmark Voting Rights Act.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-filibuster-voting-rights-change-rules/2021/12/23/id/1049754/
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