センと. ジョー・マンチン, D-W.Va。, essentially ending バイデン大統領の chances to pass Build Back Better, 民主党は連邦選挙の枠組みを確立することに軸足を移しました, which Republicans say is little more than an “election takeover scheme.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a memorial service for the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Las Vegas, ネバダ, 1月に. 8, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Like other Democrats, カマラ・ハリス副大統領を含む, Senate Majority Leader Church Schumer, D-N.Y。, および担当者. ジェームズ・クライバーン, D-S.C。, Pelosi also tied the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to the need for federal election reform to “protect our Constitution and our democracy.”
“What the Republicans are doing across the country is really a legislative continuation of what they did on Jan. 6, which is to undermine our democracy, to undermine the integrity of our elections, to undermine the voting power, which is the essence of a democracy,” Pelosi said on CBS News’ “国家に直面しなさい。”
“There is no more important bill that enables us to support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” 彼女は続けた. “They are not only suppressing the vote, they are nullifying elections, 言って, ‘Well it doesn’t matter who gets more votes, it matters who the three people we appoint to analyze that, what they decide.’ We cannot let that happen. … This legislation is the most important, and we have to keep working in order to get the job done.”
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