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Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has the latest on HR 1 on ‘Special Report’<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., slammed Republicans\u2019 successful filibuster of the Democrats\u2019 sweeping voting rights bill on Tuesday, saying she doesn\u2019t think a minority of lawmakers should have that much power. <\/p>\n
“Call me radical, but I do not believe a minority of Senators should be able to block voting rights for millions of people,” she wrote on Twitter. “But I guess I\u2019m just from that far-left school of thought that legislation should pass when a majority of legislators vote for it. <\/p>\n
The “For the People Act” needed 60 votes to clear a procedural vote in the Senate on Tuesday, but Republicans filibustered and killed the legislation from advancing to debate. <\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s vote was 50-50 with no Republicans voting with Democrats to advance it. <\/p>\n
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer echoed Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s sentiments. <\/p>\n
“Once again, the Senate Republican minority has launched a partisan blockade of a pressing issue,” he said on the chamber floor. He vowed that the vote was the “starting gun” and not the last time voting rights would be up for debate.<\/p>\n
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Republicans won’t stand for Democrats’ attempt to impose new voting standards on states that would “rig” elections in their favor. He called the substance of the nearly 900-page bill “rotten” to its core. <\/p>\n
Democrats have been railing against the filibuster, which Republicans first used this year to vote down a bipartisan commission to study the U.S. Capitol riot. That vote was 54-35, meaning the minority of voters kept it from advancing to debate. Liberals want to abolish the filibuster in favor of a <\/strong>simple majority. <\/p>\n While some Democrats have called the filibuster a “Jim Crow relic,” moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have supported keeping the longstanding rule. <\/p>\n Recently though, Manchin said he would be open to lowering the filibuster threshold to 55 votes. <\/p>\n Sinema’s office in Phoenix saw at least 10 protesters arrested Tuesday over the senator’s filibuster position.<\/p>\n Democrats used the filibuster numerous times to stop Republican bills during former President Trump’s term. <\/p>\n Fellow \u2018Squad\u2019 member U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sent out a similar tweet Tuesday. <\/p>\n “Our democracy is more important than the Senate filibuster. Pass it on,” she wrote. <\/p>\n Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez called for abolishing the filibuster. <\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n