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On the recordJune 6, 2021
You know, voting is a bedrock of our democracy, an open, fair, secure voting. We used to go around the world and explain and show and observe voting procedures in a democracy. And now if we can’t practice what we preach and we’re going to basically do an overhaul, an 800-page overhaul of the voting rights or what we call For the People Act, I think there are a lot of great things and I agree in that piece of legislation, but there’s an awful lot of things that basically don’t pertain directly to voting.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia
Source
msnbc.com

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Manchin discusses the importance of voting and his concerns about the For the People Act.

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