Senate fails to advance sweeping voting rights bill aimed at expanding early voting, registration

WASHINGTON – The Senate failed to advance a sweeping voting rights bill Tuesday, stalling the Democratic legislation aimed at countering recent restrictive state measures pursued in Republican-led states.The Senate failed to advance the For the People Act to the floor for a debate. Speaking from the Senate floor Tuesday morning,Schumer slammed Republicans ahead of the vote, saying former President Donald Trump's lies about election fraud in the 2020 elections has "spread like a cancer and threatens to envelop one of America’s major political parties." He continued that "it became the match that lit a wildfire of Republican voter suppression laws sweeping across the country.""Whatever voting changes Republicans think are good for Republicans, they’ll make them—even if it means resorting to the awful, un-American act of voter suppression," Schumer said.However, Republicans argued that the legislation was overreaching for the federal government, and elections should be left up to the states.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the legislation a "transparently partisan plan to tilt every election in America permanently" in the Democrats' favor when speaking from the Senate floor.“But whichever label Democrats slap on their bill, the substance remains the same.