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RT @TexasTribAbby: I covered Sen. Sinema's political rise while at I was at Roll Call, particularly her 2012 House race. Hard to emphasize… — PolitiTweet.org

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TFW u fell down a research hole on a topic that’s not at all related to the thing you were supposed to be working on and it’s suddenly 2:45 PM — PolitiTweet.org

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TFW u fell down a research hole on a topic other than the one you meant to be pulling data on and it’s suddenly 2:15 PM — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MSNBC: .@HayesBrown: Democrats are once again set to see their voting rights hopes dashed upon the cruel, unyielding filibuster — and R… — PolitiTweet.org

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wild that they’re getting this worked up over the rule change being discussed — being made to stand there and hold the floor to stop a bill from passing with a simple majority — PolitiTweet.org

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wild that they’re getting this worked up over the rule change being discussed — being made to stand their and hold the floor to stop a bill from passing with a majority — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @speechboy71: My favorite thing about this plan is that House Republicans want to impose these sanctions on Putin BEFORE an invasion of… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbouie: I feel like I'm losing my mind. Are we all just forgetting how, in the immediate wake of Shelby County, Republican states moved… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SawyerHackett: In 2011 @NoLabelsOrg wrote a “Make Congress Work” plan that included filibuster reform (that Manchin signed). Now they’… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daveweigel: Best kept secret in politics is that Joe Manchin has reliably voted for every Biden judicial nominee. None of the fights ha… — PolitiTweet.org

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You can see all the votes that the Senate took in 1991 regarding S. 3. Cloture was not one of them — not for the motion to proceed or for final passage. It just…happened, which is unthinkable today. https://t.co/KfvSmQDG8H — PolitiTweet.org

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And, I should note, that bill passed 55 - 44 with six GOP votes. Six GOP votes wouldn’t even be enough to stop a filibuster in today’s Senate. https://t.co/Lm8DbDNITh — PolitiTweet.org

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S.3 was vetoed by George H.W. Bush and the Senate couldn’t overturn it. But there was no filibuster. No cloture vote was needed. Just the willingness to have a vote and pass legislation with a majority. https://t.co/Lm8DbDNITh — PolitiTweet.org

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In the long, long ago days of 1991, here’s how the Senate passed a campaign finance bill — S.3. The Senate spent days debating it. There were amendments. And then the presiding officer announced that it was time to vote on the bill. It passed with fewer than 60 votes. https://t.co/qelAZX0sv0 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @frazbelina: Brian Cox on the much-talked-about NYer article concludes with quite the mic drop https://t.co/qKpbyFHV3A https://t.co/1AFU… — PolitiTweet.org

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Hagerty another Republican touting the record turnout in 2020 as proof that we don’t need new voting rights laws, but not noting that the turnout is because of easier access to voting that Republicans pushed back against. — PolitiTweet.org

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Huhn. When was the first time the argument that “the filibuster makes the Senate’s laws bipartisan” came up? Because that was absolutely not the point originally and it wasn’t the point when overcoming the filibuster in 1965. — PolitiTweet.org

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Manchin has been trying for months now and gotten nowhere! So the appeals to bipartisanship and “it’s hard but not impossible” on voting rights from Murkowski are just not credulous in light of that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Again, WHOM are the people in the GOP caucus that Murkowski is talking about that are willing to sit down and negotiate a voting rights bill in good faith? If she's serious, gather them all in a room and introduce them to Schumer. — PolitiTweet.org

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Murkowski says the bill as it stands “deprives states of the ability and the flexibility to design their own laws.” I disagree. It sets a -floor- for how states design their -federal- election laws. Here is the LEAST you should do, the bills say. https://t.co/IqcqyWQBs2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Murkowski is saying good things as far as her support for -parts- of the voting rights bill package. But what’s missing is another nine votes from her side of the aisle. There is no sign that you can get to five GOP votes, let alone ten. — PolitiTweet.org

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Murkowski re-iterates her support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act…but still sees the Freedom to Vote Act as being “too prescriptive,” citing how Alaska does things different both because of geography and because of its indigenous population — PolitiTweet.org

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“But I question whether or not changing the rules actually works to changing the attitudes. It’s just how we have chosen to utilize them to our advantage and to the disadvantage of the other side.” - Murkowski, touting the BIF deal as proof that the filibuster can be overcome — PolitiTweet.org

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Responding to Tester, who spoke just before her, she says “amen” about the dysfunctionality of the Senate. “We’re not that same body” as it was when they joined. — PolitiTweet.org

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Murkowski is up on the floor to talk about voting rights. She supports the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act…but already sounds like she’s against moving forward on this bill and against changing the rules — PolitiTweet.org

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This is why McConnell saying Georgia’s bill is fine is such a crock. Rolling back easy access to voting is still disenfranchisement. https://t.co/IqcqyWQBs2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @harrisonjaime: .@amyklobuchar hits the nail on the head… 160 exceptions have been made to the filibuster… securing voting rights shou… — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidgura @NinaTotenberg Exactly. -Sotomayor- never asked Gorsuch to wear a mask, you see. — PolitiTweet.org

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counterpoint: ben franklin got to fly kites instead of being president and that sounds like a way better deal — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sahilkapur: .@ChrisSununu was “pretty close” to running for Senate. Then he talked to Republican senators about what the job entails. h… — PolitiTweet.org