
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-AZ, ask a question during the Aviation and Space Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing titled “The Emerging Space Environment: Operational, Technical, and Policy Challenges.”, Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have enraged many of the radical progressives in the Biden/Harris administration, and Congress. Manchin has been known as a maverick Democrat for some time, but Sinema’s resistance to the progressive agenda comes as a bit more of a surprise.
Radicals in the Democratic Party want to end the filibuster in order to push through an agenda that would transform America into a nightmare. Manchin and Sinema have boldly rejected the idea of ending the filibuster, putting themselves between the radicals and everything they want to do to this country.
Joe Biden rebuked the two in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Fox News‘ Jack Durschlag reports on his comments:
President Biden appeared to lay blame Tuesday on two Democratic senators for Congress’ failure to pass voting rights legislation, apparently a reference to Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
“I hear all the folks on TV saying why doesn’t Biden get this done?” the president said in an address after meeting survivors of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre at the Greenwood Cultural Center.
“Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends,” he added, a rare public rebuke of members of his own party.
“June should be a month of action on Capitol Hill,” Biden said, as he appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House’s efforts to expand voting rights. Biden vowed to “fight like heck” to get the For the People Act, already passed by the House, through the Senate.
Both Manchin and Sinema vote with the president nearly 100% of the time, but they are opposed to nuking the 60-vote filibuster, a move that would likely be necessary to pass the sweeping For the People Act. The senators have been pressed to change their position on the Senate’s 60-vote hurdle, which is meant to prompt deliberation, especially after not enough Republicans voted with Democrats to form the Jan. 6 commission to study the Capitol riot.
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