President Biden's voting rights effort aims to heal a rift in his party. Voters' attention is mostly elsewhere.
Many Democratic activists have focused on the first bill, which they see as key to stopping Republican efforts to make voting harder and entrench GOP majorities in red states.
During Biden’s 35 years in the Senate, lawmakers expanded and extended the law four times, with Biden playing a significant role each time.
“Sadly, the United States Senate — designed to be the world’s greatest deliberative body — has been rendered a shell of its former self,” he said. “It gives me no satisfaction in saying that, as an institutionalist, as a man who was honored to serve in the Senate.” While all Senate Republicans are expected to vote no, it will be Manchin and Sinema’s votes that will seal the defeat.
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