Pelosi: Getting Rid of the Filibuster to Protect Voting Rights ‘Is Fundamental to Our Democracy’

‘I’m not only on board, it’s the most important vote, it’s about our Constitution’

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PELOSI: "The most important vote right now in the Congress of the United States is the vote to respect the sanctity of the vote, the fundamental basis of our democracy, so if there were one vote that the filibuster could enable to go forward, that would be the vote, and enable so much more, because we're talking about stopping the suppression of the vote and the nullification of the elections. We're talking about redistricting in a way that is fair and may not benefit Democrats, but it might open up some of these Republican seats. It talks about stopping the big, dark, crushing special interest money and empowers the grassroots. This is — and then, in addition to that, the Voting Rights Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights — John Lewis wrote the first 300 pages of the first bill."

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