Live updates: Biden, Harris address voting rights in speech

LiveCoronavirus pandemicLiveBiden voting rights speechBy Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Melissa Macaya, Melissa Mahtani, Meg Wagner and Mike Hayes, CNNFrom CNN's Allie MalloyPresident Biden expressed frustration with how voting bills have stalled in Congress as he’s talked privately with lawmakers but proclaimed Tuesday: “I’m tired of being quiet.”The comments come as some voting rights advocates said they would not attend Biden’s speech in Atlanta, saying they would like to see action on voting rights legislation, not another speech by the President.“The Vice President and I have supported voting rights bills since day one of this administration, but every time Senate republicans have blocked the way,” Biden added.From CNN's Leinz ValesPresident Biden called on Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote Act as he spoke about voting rights and election reform in his speech in Atlanta, ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day."Today, we call on Congress to get done what history will judge," Biden said. He said that the goal of former President Donald Trump and his allies is to "disenfranchise anyone who votes against them." President Biden, speaking about voting rights and election reform in Atlanta, called the insurrection at the US Capitol last January a "before and after" moment — and now Americans must "confront hard truths" and decide how to move on to preserve American democracy.The Jan. 6 Capitol riot is "one of those before and after moments in American history," Biden said, calling it an "insurrection on the citadel of our democracy.""Today we come to Atlanta, the cradle of civil rights, to make clear what must come after that dreadful day, when a dagger was literally held at the throat of American democracy," Biden said.Vice President Harris decried the growing slew of laws being passed across the country that restrict voting, saying that the nation should not be "deceived into thinking they are normal."Harris referenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., noting that he said that the only normalcy that should be accepted "is the normalcy of justice.""Over the past few years we have seen so many anti-voter laws that there is a danger of becoming accustomed to these laws, a danger of adjusting to these law as though they are normal, a danger of being complacent, complicit," Harris said.