Tag: voting bills

Senate to Take Up Election Reform Bill on Jan. 18

Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced late Thursday the Senate is set to take up legislation related to elections on Jan. 18. Earlier on Thursday, Democrats in the House combined two separate voting bills—the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Amendment Act—into a single text, and approved the measure with a 220-203…


House Passes Election Reform Bill, Senate to Take Up Soon

Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced late Thursday the Senate is set to take up legislation related to elections on Jan. 18. Earlier on Thursday, Democrats in the House combined two separate voting bills—the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Amendment Act—into a single text, and approved the measure with a 220-203…


Biden Expresses Doubts on Voting Rights After Closed-Door Meeting at Capitol Hill

President Joe Biden admitted Thursday he’s “not sure” his election bills will move forward after members representing key votes in the Senate expressed their unwillingness to vote in favor of changing the rules to get the bills passed. On Tuesday, the president gave a speech in Georgia calling for the Senate to end the filibuster…


Biden Invokes George Wallace to Disparage Republicans, Despite Having Praised Wallace in the Past

President Joe Biden’s history of praising segregationist George Wallace is resurfacing after the president invoked the late former Alabama governor in a speech on Tuesday. In his address from the Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the campus of Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College, Biden promoted two bills in the Senate that would overhaul voting…