I want to be clear about what just happened on the Senate floor. Every single Senate Republican just voted against starting debate--starting debate--on legislation to protect Americans' voting rights. Once again, the Senate Republican…

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My colleagues, my colleagues, if senators 60 years ago held that the federal government should never intervene to protect voting rights, this body would have never protected -- pass the Voting Rights Act. The Republican leader uses the…

In the fight for voting rights this vote was the starting gun, not the finish line.

Senate Republicans have signed their names in the ledger of history along Donald -- alongside Donald Trump, the big lie and voter suppression. Today, every single Democratic senator stood together in the fight to protect the right to vote…

This vote, I`m ashamed to say, is further evidence that voter suppression has become part of the official platform of the Republican Party.

Republican state legislatures across the country are engaged in the most sweeping voter suppression in 80 years, capitalizing on and catalyzed by Donald Trump`s big lie.

Democrats -- 50 Democrats represent 43 million more people than the 50 Republicans do. And this is a holdover from really the time of enslavement. Many of these senators represent places that don`t have the same population, while the…

Voting rights are too important, too fundamental. This concerns the very core of our democracy and what we are about as a nation.

The filibuster is an enslavement relic. It has got to go. You cannot have people`s right to vote blocked in this way.

In order to place the bill on the calendar under rule XIV, I object to further proceeding. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection has been heard. The bill will be placed on the calendar. ____________________

Reducing polling hours in polling places. How is that about election integrity? How does that reduce voter fraud? ... It has to do with cruelty. It has to do with nastiness, and it has to do with suppressing the vote.

The fight to protect voting rights is not over, by no means.

Every single Senate Republican just voted against starting debate, starting debate, on legislation to protect Americans` voting rights.

It`s a vote on whether the Senate should simply debate the issue of vote voting rights, the crucial issue of voting rights in this country. We shouldn`t have to debate the voting rights -- we shouldn`t have to debate voting rights on the…

There is a rot, a rot at the center of the modern Republican Party. Donald Trump`s big lie has spread like a cancer. They don`t even want to debate it because they`re afraid.

This vote, I’m ashamed to say, is further evidence that voter suppression has become part of the official platform of the Republican Party.

It`s not a vote on any particular policy. It`s not a vote on this bill or that bill. It is a vote on whether the Senate should simply debate the issue about voting rights, the crucial issue of voting rights in this country. Are you afraid…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will put the For the People Act, the big voting rights act, on the Senate floor, and there will be a vote on whether or not it gets debated.

I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 172. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination. The senior…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of Senator Whitehouse. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

my Republican friends are fond of saying that they just want to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat in an election. But when you look at what they are actually doing, it is spectacularly obvious that Republicans are making it harder…

I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum calls for the cloture motions filed today, June 21, be waived. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S4645, June 21, 2021, second column, the following…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m., Tuesday, June 22; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to…

I send a cloture motion to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows Cloture Motion We…