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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) talks with a reporter in the Ohio Clock Corridor before a news conference in the Capitol after the vote to advance the January 6th commission failed, on Friday, May 28, 2021. Schumer also discussed the the For the People Act, and upcoming legislation. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Demanding that lawmakers go on the record regarding their views on the For the People Act, pro-democracy campaigners on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to bring the voting rights bill up for a full debate on the Senate floor.
"The 14th and 15th Amendments--granting citizenship and the right to vote to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War--were passed by Congress on party-line votes. We ask Senator Manchin--should Congress not have passed those?" --Karen Hobert Flynn, Common Cause
\u201c79% of West Virginia voters support the #ForThePeopleAct.\n\nWhy doesn't @Sen_JoeManchin?\n\nhttps://t.co/wNMTZvonTA\u201d— Common Cause (@Common Cause) 1623077632
\u201cWe desperately need the Senate to lean in and save and reform our democracy. We cannot wait for action on this any longer. \n\n Congress must pass the #ForThePeopleAct! \ud83d\uddf3\ufe0f https://t.co/wdaANsc6tJ\u201d— People's Action (@People's Action) 1623098186
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Demanding that lawmakers go on the record regarding their views on the For the People Act, pro-democracy campaigners on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to bring the voting rights bill up for a full debate on the Senate floor.
"The 14th and 15th Amendments--granting citizenship and the right to vote to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War--were passed by Congress on party-line votes. We ask Senator Manchin--should Congress not have passed those?" --Karen Hobert Flynn, Common Cause
\u201c79% of West Virginia voters support the #ForThePeopleAct.\n\nWhy doesn't @Sen_JoeManchin?\n\nhttps://t.co/wNMTZvonTA\u201d— Common Cause (@Common Cause) 1623077632
\u201cWe desperately need the Senate to lean in and save and reform our democracy. We cannot wait for action on this any longer. \n\n Congress must pass the #ForThePeopleAct! \ud83d\uddf3\ufe0f https://t.co/wdaANsc6tJ\u201d— People's Action (@People's Action) 1623098186
Demanding that lawmakers go on the record regarding their views on the For the People Act, pro-democracy campaigners on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to bring the voting rights bill up for a full debate on the Senate floor.
"The 14th and 15th Amendments--granting citizenship and the right to vote to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War--were passed by Congress on party-line votes. We ask Senator Manchin--should Congress not have passed those?" --Karen Hobert Flynn, Common Cause
\u201c79% of West Virginia voters support the #ForThePeopleAct.\n\nWhy doesn't @Sen_JoeManchin?\n\nhttps://t.co/wNMTZvonTA\u201d— Common Cause (@Common Cause) 1623077632
\u201cWe desperately need the Senate to lean in and save and reform our democracy. We cannot wait for action on this any longer. \n\n Congress must pass the #ForThePeopleAct! \ud83d\uddf3\ufe0f https://t.co/wdaANsc6tJ\u201d— People's Action (@People's Action) 1623098186