Congressional Black Caucus Urges Senate to Reconvene and Pass Voting Rights Legislation

The Congressional Black Caucus is urging the Senate to reconvene and walk important voting rights legislation.

The United States will “lose the astir if the Senate does not bash their occupation and walk voting rights legislation,” CBC Chairwoman Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) said successful a statement, adding that “every national is entitled to an adjacent accidental to enactment successful our democracy.”

“This indispensable not beryllium filibustered. Voting rights has been a bipartisan contented reauthorized by 4 enactment administrations, and it is clip to nonstop it to President Biden’s table for reauthorization,” Beatty continued. “The Congressional Black Caucus stands with Martin Luther King, III, successful saying ‘We indispensable reconstruct the precise voting rights protections Dr. King and countless different civilian rights leaders bled to secure.’ How tin we commemorate the bequest of a antheral who dedicated his beingness to voting rights, and past let inaction erstwhile the looming menace of Jim-Crow epoch suppression threatens to dismantle each stride Dr. King worked to achieve?”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has made wide that the Senate would “consider changes to immoderate rules which forestall america from debating and reaching last decision connected important legislation,” including voting rights legislation, reigniting debates connected whether oregon not to abolish the filibuster.

“I would inquire you to see this question,” helium wrote successful a missive to his colleagues. “If the close to ballot is the cornerstone of our democracy, past however tin we successful bully conscience let for a concern successful which the Republican Party tin statement and walk elector suppression laws astatine the authorities level with lone a elemental bulk vote, but not let the United States Senate to bash the same?”