Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Democrats’ voting rights expansion bill fails to pass GOP filibuster in Senate. What’s next?
In the Senate, all 50 Republicans voted against debating the bill that would’ve made Election Day a federal holiday and allowed automatic and same-day voter registration.
By Madeleine Brand • • 9m ListenIn the Senate, all 50 Republicans voted against debating the bill that would’ve made Election Day a federal holiday and allowed automatic and same-day voter registration. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer now says he plans to introduce separate legislation as soon as next week.
Vice President Kamala Harris said today at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington: “Right now, there are two bills in front of the United States Congress that would help to restore the Voting Rights Act and strengthen the right to vote for all Americans. The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. These two bills are among the broadest efforts to protect and strengthen the right to vote since Dr. King died. But yesterday, as Senate Democrats voted to advance the Freedom to Vote Act, Senate Republicans voted against even debating it. Even debating it.”
Press Play looks at what happened and where Congressional Democrats may try to go from here.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Angie Perrin
Producer, Press Play
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Ari Berman
voting rights reporter for Mother Jones, author of “Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People ― and the Fight to Resist It”