Senate Democrats are plowing forward with their sweeping election reform bill they argue is necessary to safeguard voting rights that are 'under attack,' but Republicans have pledged to fight the legislation they've dubbed a Democratic 'power grab' to federalize local elections.
The clashing views will come to a head Tuesday morning when the Senate Rules Committee Tuesday will
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., praises his Democratic Caucus at a news conference just after the Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Schumer has voted the Senate will take up S.1, the Democrats' sweeping election reform legislation.
McConnell, however, said Democrats were trying to"forcibly rewrite" election laws in all 50 states and turn the Federal Election Commission into a partisan body to enforce campaign laws."Talk about shame. If anybody ought to be feeling any shame around here, it's turning the FEC into a partisan prosecutor, the majority controlled by the president's party, to harass and intimidate the other side," McConnell said during the March 24 hearing.
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