voting rights
Progressives want Biden to push harder on voting rights
August 25, 2021They want the president to push for a carve-out that would eliminate the Senate filibuster for voting rights bills.
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House OKs $3.5 trillion budget plan, allowing massive social change
August 25, 2021Vote described by AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler as “critical step forward for working families”
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Old-time white supremacists would love McConnell’s arguments against voting rights
August 24, 2021It's the same old "states' rights" smokescreen they used against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which Congress passed to overturn Southern Jim Crow laws.
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Voting rights equal worker rights: Unions fight for John Lewis Act, PRO Act
August 23, 2021If the filibuster remains in the way, speakers said, get rid of it.
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House on verge of votes on infrastructure, budget, voting rights
August 18, 2021Groups mobilize across the country in a do-or-die effort to get Congress to chart a course that can re-make the country.
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