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We are trying to set a floor, a national floor for protecting the right to vote and protecting the integrity of the voting system.

I also invite my Republican colleagues to work with us on these commonsense solutions.

We need both sides to come to the table, and I think the example of what happened in Kentucky... is a terrific example for us to follow.

Let's get rid of this idea that there is no role for Congress or the Federal Government in election laws.

I think what you said is very important because what you said is consistent with everything I have read and heard about voter fraud across the country, and that is it is isolated.

The reason those threats are being made is that people are being told something that is untrue, that a, there was massive fraud, and b, that election officials were in on the fraud.

Part of the problem is we have converted political--political opponents into enemies and everything is a war.

You can get 41 votes out of the current Senate, which was enough to block any legislation. And if you take the states that those 41 senators represent, add all the population together, you get 24 percent of the American people. So, the…

This is fragile, and we are in a very dangerous moment. This is the most dangerous moment I think since 1860 in terms of the future of the country.

We can’t let this wave of voter suppression, and the changing of the rules that you mentioned happen.

24 percent of the American people have an effective veto, over anything that 76 percent of the American people think is important public policy. I don’t think that squares the democratic theory.

I think that really, really makes a difference. And it was -- it was -- I guess you shouldn’t say shocking. It wasn’t really surprising. I didn’t expect to get those Republican votes. But to have them simply say, we just don’t want to have…

It’s important to remember that most failures of democracy as we look at history, started with legitimate elections.

When it comes to democracy itself, and that’s at what at risk, Rachel, I’ve never been worried about the future of my country, because we are headed for a place where people don’t trust elections.

The filibuster is not in the Constitution, we need to restore the Senate to what it was back when I worked there 40 years ago.

Democracy itself is more important than any Senate rule.

Not to prolong the discussion, but Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution makes it abundantly clear that the responsibility for election administration is a joint one between the States and the Congress, and that the Congress, at any…

Your position on this bill is that it is basically a good bill but there are modifications the Department would like to see made, is that correct?