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Beto O'Rourke: “We've got to do that right now in 2021 and we've got to encourage. And I think, also, in the spirit of Bob Moses push a…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2021
We've got to do that right now in 2021 and we've got to encourage. And I think, also, in the spirit of Bob Moses push a little bit on President Biden to not only diagnose the problems, this unprecedented attack on our democracy, talked about in Philadelphia, but also prescribe the solution, the political courage necessary to change the rules of the filibuster, for example, to allow voting rights legislation to pass by majority vote so that we can pass the For the People Act.
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Beto O'Rourke
Democratic · Texas
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msnbc.com

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Beto O`Rourke emphasizes the need for political courage from President Biden to change the filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation.

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