'I hear all the folks on TV say, 'why doesn't Biden get this done?'' said Biden. 'Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate. With two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends. But we're not giving up.'
"I hear all the folks on TV say, 'why doesn't Biden get this done?'" said Biden."Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate—with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends. But we're not giving up."
President Joe Biden blamed"two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends" for Democratic difficulties in passing voting rights legislation during a speech marking the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. Biden is pictured delivering the speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 1, 2021.Biden characterized the current Democratic voting rights push as a crucial component of racial justice.
"To signify the importance of our efforts, today I'm asking Vice President Harris to help these efforts and lead them, among her many other responsibilities," Biden said."With her leadership and your support, we're going to overcome again, I promise you. But it's gonna take a hell of a lot of work." Biden was speaking in Tulsa to mark the centenary of a violent racist attack on Black residents that killed as many as 300 people, while injuring and leaving many thousands more homeless in 1921. The president stressed the importance of memorializing the incident, saying it was"not a riot" but"a massacre," after meeting with the last three surviving victims of the attack on"Black Wall Street.
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