SEN. SCHUMER: "How will the members of this body band [together] and protect the most basic right, the right to vote, from forces...conspiring to take it away?...The question today before us today is as old as the Republic itself."
"If the Republicans block cloture on the legislation before us, I will put forward a proposal to change the Senate rules to allow for a talking filibuster on this legislation."
"McConnell even claimed, quote, 'states are not engaged in trying to suppress voters whatsoever.'...I would ask the Republican leader if there's no effort to suppress the vote, why have 19 states passed 33 new laws making it harder for Americans to participate in our elections?"
"I don't know if any of you have, but I have not heard a single serious defense of these laws from Senate Republicans. They don't come here to the floor to defend what's going on in the states. What we have heard is sophistry, distractions, and outright gaslighting."
"If the Senate cannot protect the right to vote, protect the cornerstone of our democracy, under the existing rules then the Senate rules must be reformed."
"Isn't...voting rights, the most fundamental wellspring of this democracy, more important? Isn't protecting voting rights & preventing their diminution more important than a rule in the Senate which has not always been in existence & was not envisioned by the founders?"
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