'Call your senators now and tell them to hold the floor, keep the debate going, and fix or ditch the filibuster to pass democracy reform.'
"Call your senators now and tell them to hold the floor, keep the debate going, and fix or ditch the filibuster to pass democracy reform," says Indivisible.As the U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating voting rights legislation intended to combat GOP attacks on democracy, progressive groups urged Democratic senators to hold the floor however long it takes to send a House-approved package to President Joe Biden's desk.
"We don't want a quick debate and a perfunctory vote," she added."We want a full airing of the ways Republicans are undermining our right to vote across the country—on a partisan basis, for the record—and how the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act would save our democracy from these attacks." Republicans' lies about electoral security and ongoing voter suppression efforts have fueled demands for Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which House Democrats recently consolidated into the single bill now before the Senate.
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