Sen. Angus King: There Are Areas Where Filibuster Doesn’t Work and Voting Rights Is One

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KING: "Well, what we are trying to do, Andrea, is find a path where the minority’s rights are respected, they are able to be heard, but without the power to totally obstruct, and that's really the issue that we are trying to try to find a path through. And those are the discussions that we are having. Joe Manchin believes in voting rights. He was a governor. He was a secretary of state. And he was the principal author of the Voting Rights Bill that we have on the floor, The Right to Vote Act. So this is something that's important to him but he also believes in the role of the Senate as, you know, a bipartisan body. He believes the filibuster protects the rights of the minority, forces bipartisan discussion. The problem is there are areas where that doesn't work and voting rights is one, where we've seen essentially no interest whatsoever on the Republican side from even addressing this issue and, yet, it’s the issue that's sort of underlining everything else that the country stands for and that we do around here. So we are going to be trying to find that path and continue the discussions and really hopefully find a resolution this week."