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Chuck Schumer: “How can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression…”

On the recordDecember 22, 2021
How can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the state level with only a simple majority vote, but not allow the United States Senate to do the same?
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Schumer emphasizes the need to amend the filibuster to allow voting rights legislation to pass in response to state-level voter suppression laws.

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