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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellMcConnell blocks simple majority votes on Dems' voting rights bills Republicans threaten floor takeover if Democrats weaken filibuster Biden to 'forcefully advocate' for voting rights in Tuesday speech MORE (R-Ky.) on Monday night blocked an attempt by Senate Majority Leader Charles SchumerChuck SchumerClyburn on updating election law: 'What is true today was not true then' Biden eulogizes Reid as a fighter 'for the America we all love' Like it or not, all roads forward for Democrats go through Joe Manchin MORE (D-N.Y.) to set up simple majority votes on a sweeping elections bill and legislation to bolster the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which would have allowed Democrats to pass the two bills without GOP support.Schumer, on the Senate, floor detailed his offer: allowing the two bills to need only a simple majority to pass instead of needing the normal 60 votes to advance in the Senate.
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