“We need President Biden...to join President Obama, Rep. Clyburn, and millions of people across the country in demanding that the Senate eliminate the filibuster as Sen. McConnell’s weapon of partisan obstruction”
Washington Post: “The Biden administration needs to take democracy issues much more seriously”
Washington, DC — In advance of President Biden’s planned speech on voting rights tomorrow, Fix Our Senate released the following statement from spokesman Eli Zupnick.
“It’s great to see President Biden step up and engage directly in what he is calling a ‘cause of his presidency,’ the fight to protect our democracy. But it won’t be enough to hear about what the Administration is doing on their own to blunt the attacks on our democracy—we need President Biden to make a clear and forceful call for voting rights legislation and to join President Obama, Rep. Clyburn, and millions of people across the country in demanding that the Senate eliminate the filibuster as Sen. McConnell’s weapon of partisan obstruction. A majority of the House and Senate support strong democracy reforms, Senator Schumer said that ‘failure is not an option,’ and the only thing standing in the way is an outdated and abused Senate filibuster.”