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Politico, January 18, 2022 – 6:00 pm (ET)

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/18/senate-dems-filibuster-showdown-election-reform-527308

Senate Dems free-fall toward filibuster face-off without a parachute
Politico, Burgess Everett and Marianne LevineJanuary 18, 2022

Senate Democrats will stick together on this week’s vote to push their voting and election reform bill past Republican opposition. Then they’ll focus on isolating two of their own centrists.

The Democratic caucus is pressing forward with laying blame on Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) for the party’s failure to advance sweeping elections reform, thanks to their resistance to weakening the filibuster. The move carries considerable risk, given that Sinema and Manchin will be essential to any further success the party can muster this year — particularly on any resuscitation of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who has been speaking to Manchin on rules changes, said Democrats have tried to come up with a proposal that’s consistent with his and Sinema’s positions and that they aren’t worried the vote will alienate the two centrists.

“I was not a negotiator of the infrastructure bill — I was so happy they were, and I praised them for it, and I voted for it, and it’s going to be great,” Kaine said. “This voting bill is as important or more to many of us than the infrastructure bill. The time is nigh for a decision.”

Schumer starts debate on voting legislation, says ‘eyes of the nation’ are on the Senate
CNN, Clare Foran and Ali ZaslavJanuary 18, 2022

As the chamber returned after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer started debate on House-passed voting rights legislation and warned that “the eyes of the nation will be watching what happens this week in the United States Senate.”

Democrats are pushing ahead on one of the party’s signature issues despite the fact that they lack the votes to pass the legislation in Congress and face an uphill battle.

“Senate Democrats are under no illusion that we face difficult odds, especially when virtually every Senate Republican is staunchly against legislation protecting the right to vote,” Schumer said. “But I want to be clear: when this chamber confronts a question this important, one so vital to our country, so vital to our ideals, so vital to the future of our democracy, you don’t slide it off the table and say, never mind.”

The New York Democrat on Tuesday moved to force a vote to break a filibuster on the voting legislation, which could take place as soon as Wednesday if there is agreement. If there is no agreement, then the vote would take place Thursday.

Senate opens debate on voting rights bills, setting up a potential filibuster showdown
CNN, January 18, 2022 – 12:00 pm (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/blinken-ukraine-germany-trip-russia/index.html

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CNN, Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto, Katie Bo Williams, Barbara Starr and Alex Marquardt,

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/us-military-support-ukraine-russia/index.html

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby holds a news briefing
CNN, January 18, 2022 – 1:00 pm (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/us-military-support-ukraine-russia/index.html

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