Sinema Says She Will Not Support Changing Filibuster - The New York Times - 0 views
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Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Democrat of Arizona, declared that she would not support undermining the Senate filibuster to enact new laws under any circumstances.
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she believed that a unilateral Democratic move to weaken the filibuster would only foster growing political division.
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“These bills help treat the symptoms of the disease, but they do not fully address the disease itself,”
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the House approved the new measure on a party-line vote of 220 to 203 after a heated partisan debate in which lawmakers clashed over the state of election laws across the country.
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Ms. Sinema has been under pressure from her colleagues to drop her opposition to a rules change, but her refusal to reverse course appeared to doom the bills in the Senate.
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Democrats said the legislation was urgently needed to offset efforts taking hold in Republican-led states to make it more difficult to vote after Democratic gains in the 2020 elections and former President Donald J. Trump’s false claim that the vote was stolen.
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“There are people who don’t want you to vote and they are using every tool in the toolbox to make it harder,”
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Democrats of “hijacking” the space agency measure to push through legislation that they said represented federal intrusion into state voting operations to give an unfair advantage to Democratic candidates.