Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are preparing to take one more big swing at voting rights. They may end up hitting their base with a huge letdown.
The House will return to Washington later this month to vote on updated legislation to restore key provisions of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court struck down in 2013. Across the Capitol, a small group of Democratic senators are closing in on a compromise on separate but related set of more immediate voting reforms they think could unify the party, if not get any new Republican votes.
Time is of the essence. After months of inaction, Democrats are down to their final few weeks before the new congressional maps are drawn for next year’s midterms. The Census Bureau will release key redistricting data on Thursday that states need to redraw their congressional maps. Already, 18 states have approved a slew of laws that would make it generally harder for people to vote.
The West Virginian, however, is showing no signs of changing his views on the filibuster and rejecting a compromise idea that would bend the Senate rules by creating a ““Joe Manchin is not wavering on the filibuster. It’s just not happening. He doesn’t believe it’s good for the Senate or the country," said Jonathan Kott, a former Manchin adviser.
Democrats involved in the talks say the Senate's compromise, which is close to being finished, is broader than the substitute Manchin proposed earlier this summer but less sweeping than than the voting reforms and anti-corruption bill that the House passed with the symbolic designation of H.R. 1. Manchin reiterated his opposition to H.R.
Butterfield said his staff have been discussing the bill with their Senate counterparts on a near-daily basis all summer. Still, there is no clear path for the Lewis-named bill to advance across the Capitol, where a previous version counted only one GOP cosponsor. Congressional Democrats may have one other path to protecting voting rights this Congress, though it would fall dramatically short of what most in the party want. Some senior Democrats had discussed adding billions of dollars in funding for election infrastructure to the party’s forthcoming, filibuster-proof social spending bill — an idea that House leadership rejected for fear of sapping energy from the broader voting policy bills.
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