Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    President Biden urges filibuster changes to protect voting rights

    by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Jan 11, 2022 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON — President Biden, in a fiery speech Tuesday in Atlanta, called for changing Senate rules in order to pass voting rights protections, going further than he has before in an effort to unify Senate Democrats around what he framed as an existential issue for the country.

    Biden, whose support for the legislative filibuster has softened in recent months, endorsed changing the rule that allows the minority party to block any bill that doesn’t receive 60 votes.

    Lamenting that the Senate where he served 36 years “has been rendered a shell of its former self,” Biden said that if Republicans continue to block debate on two voting rights bills, “we have no option but to change the Senate rules ... whichever way they need to be changed.

    Decrying a spate of new restrictive voting laws Republicans enacted last

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times4 min readAmerican Government
    South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Under Fire For Shooting Dog, Describes Making ‘Hard Decisions’ At California GOP Gathering
    BURLINGAME, Calif. — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, once considered a potential 2024 running mate for former President Donald Trump, received a warm reception at a gathering of California Republicans on Saturday just weeks after facing a harsh public
    Los Angeles Times5 min read
    A Calif. Man Started A Petition To Ban Airbnb In His Neighborhood — And It Worked
    First came the all-night parties and music blaring from a neighbor's house in Long Beach that kept Andy Oliver up at night. Then there were the "smoke outs," when visitors enjoying refuge from hostile cannabis laws in their home states blazed marijua
    Los Angeles Times3 min read
    UC Santa Cruz Academic Workers To Strike Monday, Angered Over Treatment Of Pro-Palestinian Protesters
    The union representing 48,000 academic workers across the University of California said Friday that its members at UC Santa Cruz will go on strike Monday over alleged worker rights and free speech violations, potentially dealing a blow to campus oper

    Related Books & Audiobooks