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RT @HayesBrown: "Kamala Harris get on Nelson Rockefeller’s level” challenge 2022 https://t.co/HUB2mlfWC7 https://t.co/UXIZdF5eW4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Can I just say what a plot twist it would be if Harris just goes ahead and rules from the chair that the Freedom to Vote Act can proceed to a vote without needing cloture and calls for the yeas and nays 🙃 https://t.co/HUB2mlxy0H — PolitiTweet.org

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Warnock: Let the message go out: you cannot honor Martin Luther King and work to dismantle his legacy at the same time. … I will not sit quietly while some make Dr. King the victim of identity theft. — PolitiTweet.org

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Warnock has gotten more chuckles out of his colleagues during his speech than anyone else today. The latest: “Now, Madame President, as I continue what might feel like a filibuster…" — PolitiTweet.org

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Warnock: “Now, Madame President, as I continue what might feel like a filibuster…" — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricMGarcia @NSlayton No, but she’s the tie-breaking vote so there she must be. — PolitiTweet.org

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Warnock: "I believe in bipartisanship. But when it comes to voting rights, I have to ask: bipartisanship at what cost? Who is being asked to foot the bill for this bipartisanship?" — PolitiTweet.org

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Honestly, props to Schumer for scheduling Georgia’s senators, Ossoff and Warnock, as the closers in what has been a much more engaging and dynamic debate than I’d expected on voting rights. — PolitiTweet.org

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Warnock: Here is the question: Are we Jan 5 or Jan 6? Are we going to yield to those dividing us, gerrymandering us, supressing us? Or are we going to live up to that grand American covenant, E pluribus unum, out of many one. — PolitiTweet.org

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Props to Schumer for scheduling Georgia’s senators be the closers for what has been a much better and more engaging debate than I would have expected. — PolitiTweet.org

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Warnock: January 6th happened. January 5th happened too — the state of Georgia, a state at the heart of the Confederacy, sent a Black man and a Jewish man to the Senate. … We are standing in the middle between January 5th and January 6th. — PolitiTweet.org

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Warnock notes that this is his 365th day as a U.S. Senator. He recounts how right after his win, he was feeling pretty good. (“I was on The View talking to Whoopi!”) But then the news alerts started coming in about the attack on the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Rafael Warnock, D-Georgia: “This is not just another day in the Senate. This is a moral moment.” “We have been summoned here. All of us. We cannot turn away." — PolitiTweet.org

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Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., is now calling out Republicans who previously supported the Voting Rights Act by name. Do not speak John Lewis’s name to cite your virtue, then work against his legacy, he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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!!! Bernie: “I DO NOT understand why two Democrats” who will vote for the bill “will not vote to change the rules” to pass it. "If you are prepared to vote for the bill, why are you wasting everyone’s time and not voting for the rule change that allows them to pass the bill?!" — PolitiTweet.org

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Under the proposed rule change, the minority — be it Democrat or Republican — would have “days and days” to hold the floor and make their concerns heard and rally the American people to their cause, Bernie says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Bernie says this issue is “not complicated,” despite what opponents would have you think. “Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Period.” But Trump insisted and continues to insist that he won and the election was stolen, prompting states to pass new election laws. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sanders takes the floor. "the OTHER Senator from Vermont” the chair says. “We’re running out of senators from Vermont,” Bernie responds. — PolitiTweet.org

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Leahy says to Schumer in his speech that this issue deserves actual unlimited debate with amendments available for the minority. He adds to McConnell that it deserves the ability to have an actual debate with an up or down vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Leahy, who has been in the Senate since 1974, is on the floor and citing the number of times the Constitution itself has expanded the right to vote, not restricted it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kyledcheney: Here is the detailed breakdown of the 750+ pages of Trump White House records the committee is about to access. https://… — PolitiTweet.org

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Honestly, I’m like 33% surprised that no Republican has approvingly cited Barry Goldwater’s opposition to the Voting Rights Act during this debate — PolitiTweet.org

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ANOTHER ONE: Sen. Crapo, R-Idaho, cited the 2020 election turnout as a reason to not pass this bill, ignoring the changes in state election laws since then and the Covid-related provisions that made voting easier — PolitiTweet.org

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So far I’ve heard nobody from the GOP except Murkowski say what sort of voting rights legislation they -would- support! Not one of them has cited provisions for protecting access to vote in federal elections they would support. — PolitiTweet.org

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@caitiedelaney I wish I had a real answer but here we are — PolitiTweet.org

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@caitiedelaney “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Rosen, D-Nev., points out that the leading GOP state-level candidates in Nevada are in favor of making it harder to vote and/or would have refused to certify the 2020 election — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer briefly interrupts Sen. Lujan to bump the cloture vote back to 8 PM instead of 6:30 as originally planned — PolitiTweet.org

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pundits/political journalists: why hasn’t biden held more press conferences????? how dare he hide from democracy! biden: [gives a two hour press conference] pundits/political journalists: wow, bruh, who told you that was a good idea. big mistake smh. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AASchapiro: Remember that viral story about Amazon packages stolen from trains in LA - & how it was blamed on lax LA prosecutors? Wel… — PolitiTweet.org