A White House official said the president and vice president will be working the phones over the next several days.
in which he voiced support for eliminating the filibuster to pass two bills aimed at increasing voter access.
Schumer set a deadline of Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, for the Senate to either pass voting rights bills or consider making changes to the chamber's rules. In a memo to Senate Democrats sent Wednesday that was obtained by CBS News, the New York Democrat laid out a new strategy for taking up the measures and said the Senate would begin consideration of them"in the coming days."
The majority leader said the strategy"sets up a process in which senators can finally make clear to the American people where they stand on protecting our democracy and preserving the right of every eligible American to cast a ballot." Schumer acknowledged 10 Republican senators would still need to join all 50 Democrats to end debate on the bills and pass them, which is unlikely. The Senate would then need to change the Senate rules if GOP members block the legislation from advancing, he said.of trying to"attack the core identity of the Senate," and says he didn't recognize Mr. Biden in the speech he delivered Tuesday.
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