For The People Act Goes Down In Flames!

This dirtbag and the Republicans sank voting rights in America.

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An evenly split U.S. Senate and still nothing gets done. The Senate is apparently a place where bills die.

50 Republicans along with 48 Democrats with 2 Independents voting with the Democrats. The partisan gridlock in the U.S. Senate continues to plague America. Now Democrats are getting sick and tired of the Republican Party and its obstruction.

The Democrats couldn't muster enough support to have a floor debate on the John Lewis Voting Act and the For The People Act.

As President of the Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris has to be the official tallier of the votes and deciding factor of a split in the Senate.

The Senate failed to advance the For the People Act to the floor for a debate. In a vote of 50-50, it fell short of the 60 needed to overcome a GOP filibuster.All Democratic Senators voted to begin debate, and the Republicans unanimously voted to block it.

The For the People Act is largely hailed by Democrats as being necessary because Republican-led states have introduced a slew of new voting restrictions that civil rights groups fear could suppress the vote for marginalized groups and make it harder to vote overall.

Today, @SenSchumer and I held our latest strategy call on getting the For the People Act to my desk.

Democrats are united and committed to passing this landmark legislation to protect voting rights, ensure the integrity of our elections, and repair and strengthen our democracy. pic.twitter.com/0s4IYMwMZB

— President Biden (@POTUS) June 22, 2021

Our democracy is stronger when everyone participates—and it is weaker when people are denied meaningful access to participation. Today, as Senate Democrats united around the For The People Act, Senate Republicans voted against advancing it. My Statement: https://t.co/BmEqoGow0s

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 23, 2021

Every single Democratic Senator stood together in the fight to protect the right to vote in America.

Make no mistake:

Democrats will not let this go.

This will not be the last time that voting rights legislation comes up for a debate in this Senate.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 22, 2021

The legislation aims to counter regulations that make it difficult to vote –especially for people of color. It includes provisions Democrats say would make it easier for people to vote and register to vote. These include expanding early voting and allowing for same-day voter registration.

Schumer is raging about the Senate's failure to get things done. He is guilty as the Republicans.

Just hours before the vote, Democrats achieved a unified caucus with Sen. Karen Manchin (D-WV) announcing he'd back the legislation to move forward.  

But despite Democrats having a united vote to advance it, the bill was never expected to advance.

Until Tuesday afternoon, questions swirled around Manchin and whether he would join Democrats in voting to advance the bill. He had previously criticized the legislation as being too partisan, and released a list of provisions in the bill he opposed and supported, saying then he would not rule out voting for a modified piece of legislation. 

One of the provision Manchin called for included "allowable alternatives" for voter identification. Democrats had been seeking to loosen identification requirements. 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Tuesday he and Manchin had come to an agreement, and they would take up Manchin's changes first if they get to a debate. 

In a statement, Manchin said he has "worked to eliminate the far reaching provisions of" the legislation and has "found common ground with my Democratic colleagues on a new version of the bill that ensures our elections are fair, accessible, and secure." 

Manchin had been meeting with Senate leaders on the bill, including Senate Rules Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) 

Klobuchar told reporters Tuesday Democrats would emerge "united behind getting votes" on the legislation. She said Republicans "are wanting to stop the debate, just like they tried their hardest to stop people from voting in Texas" and other states.

Karen Manchin continues to push for the fantasy of bipartisanship. He clearly got slapped in the face.

In March, it passed the House largely along party lines, with one Democrat and all Republicans voting against it. It never had any Republican support in the Senate — where it needed the support of at least 10 Republicans to overcome a filibuster. 

Speaking from the Senate floor Tuesday morning,Schumer slammed Republicans ahead of the vote, saying Washed Up 45'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 Karen 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. It’s always been a plan to rewrite the ground rules of American politics," McConnell said.

Democrats on Tuesday continued to argue they should at least be able to debate the legislation on the floor.

Ms. Pink Wig decides to write an opinion piece saying she's doesn't see urgency in removing the filibuster.

Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) asked, "Why can't we debate it on the floor and look at how to improve it?"

"I think that's what frustrates progressives, moderates and many Republicans, if we're honest," he continued. 

So the Republican state legislatures and governors are trying to stop Americans from voting. 

They're butt hurt about losing an election. So instead of running better candidates and proposals that help all Americans, they're working overtime to change the rules. They want to keep themselves unpopular no matter what folks say.