Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
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Manchin, who helped negotiate the bill, has been replaced by his caucus to try to find the 10 Republican senators who would support the bill and break a 60-vote legislative filibuster, and the Senate hopes to try to start the debate as early as next week.
“I work with everyone. I want to know where they are, what we can do,” Manchin told reporters after the meeting, confirming that he was introducing McConnell to the voting rights bill.
“I always think there’s a way forward. You know me … I’m optimistic. I’m here to work with everyone,” Manchin added.
Manchin and a group of Democrats unveiled new voting rights legislation on Tuesday as Democrats make a renewed effort to try to get a bill. President Biden
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But to get a bill through the Senate, Democrats would need the support of 10 Republican senators or the entire unity of the 50 Democrats to eliminate the legislative filibuster or create a cut from the hurdle to rights legislation. of vote.
While Manchin is expanding his outreach to Republicans, McConnell and other Republican Party leaders indicate they cannot support the new Democratic bill.
“We will not allow Washington Democrats to abuse their major knives in both chambers to overturn state and local governments and appoint them as the national board of steroid elections,” McConnell said in a statement.
His. John Thune
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“If Manchin tried to throw it at Mitch and I know he’s been trying to talk about it for a long time, I think trying to find something that, you know, would have a path to bipartisan support,” Thune said.
“But I can’t, as I said, imagine what that is as long as it entails the broader strategy behind it, which is basically federalizing and nationalizing our elections,” Thune added.
But Manchin told reporters he thought the meeting was worthwhile and said he wants to “find out if there is any position he can take, you know, for the right to vote.”
“We have to do something if we can, find a way forward,” Manchin said. “I just wanted to say,‘ We have a new bill. Can we get help? “”
McConnell’s spokesmen did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the meeting.
Senate Republicans previously blocked the For the People Act, a bill that would revise federal elections, which would be debated earlier this year.
The new Democrat bill is based on a framework initially distributed by Manchin earlier this summer and includes automatic voter registration, which makes election day a holiday, same-day voter registration, national rules for voter identification, new requirements for reporting foreign contacts with campaigns, and disclosure requirements for online campaign ads.
Leader of the Senate majority Charles Schumer
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“Senator Manchin is working with Republicans to get support for the bill and we hope to know what changes they could make to the legislation,” Schumer said Tuesday.
“As a majority leader, I intend to vote on this bill as soon as next week,” he added.