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Biden says he supports filibuster carve-out for voting rights

Biden says he supports filibuster carve-out for voting rights
Mhm. Yeah, I've never seen anything like the unrelenting assault and the right to vote. Never. I don't think any of you have on this stage ever seen. Not a joke. And folks? Yeah, it was. John Lewis said. It is the only without the right to vote. There is no democracy. We've supported Democrats fighting for voting rights bill since day one of our administration, making sure that we have unanimous support among Democrats in the Senate, which we do. But each and every time it gets to be brought up, that other team blocks the ability even to start to discuss it. That other team, it used to be called the Republican Party, but this battle is not over. We must pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. We must. We're going to keep up the fight until we get it done and you're going to keep up the fight and we need your help badly. You can defeat it, but you can't eliminate it. It just slides back under a rock. And when given oxygen by political leaders, it comes out ugly and mean as it was before. We can't give it any oxygen. We have to step on it. We have to respond to it. It's not who we are, it's a minority. But if the majority doesn't speak up, it has a profound impact. That's what we've seen the last few years. We cannot. We must not give hate any safe harbor. We have to shine. The brighter the light as we can. And that's the other one disinfectant. Call it out and you're going to be the light. You're going to have to be the light.
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Updated: 3:51 PM CST Dec 26, 2021
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Biden says he supports filibuster carve-out for voting rights
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Updated: 3:51 PM CST Dec 26, 2021
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President Joe Biden says he supports making an exception to the Senate filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation."If the only thing standing between getting voting rights legislation passed and not getting passed is the filibuster, I support making the exception of voting rights for the filibuster," Biden told ABC News' David Muir in an interview that aired Thursday morning.It's the most direct answer Biden has given on his position on the filibuster and voting rights.CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Biden at a CNN town hall in October, "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 responded.Since Democrats won a slim majority in Congress, Republicans have blocked several Democratic-sponsored bills that seek to expand voting access and aim to end voter suppression, argu