Breaking: Republicans blocked a rewrite of the country’s election laws, and Democrats prepared to respond with an ill-fated attempt to muscle through the package with a simple majority by changing the Senate’s procedures
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Sen. Mitt Romney has said a bipartisan group of senators discussing reforms now includes about a dozen people. “Our Republican colleagues don’t even acknowledge that we have a crisis,” said Mr. Schumer, citing new restrictions in states like Montana, Texas and Florida. He cited past voter suppression efforts against Black Americans, calling the GOP stance today “particularly disgraceful, particularly abhorrent, particularly obnoxious.”
The debate had the hallmarks of a freewheeling conversation, with senators rushing to sign up for speaking slots to rebut assertions by their colleagues.
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