The subject of Manchin making an exception to the Senate's filibuster rule for voting rights apparently never came up.
Dozens of Texas Democrats headed for Washington, D.C. in a last ditch effort to block one of the most restrictive voting bills in the country.Roughly a dozen Texas Democrats who fled their state to come to Washington met Thursday in a Capitol Hill basement with the Senate Democrat who holds the key vote in Congress on voting rights legislation, West Virginia's Joe Manchin.
The centrist Democratic senator, who has refused to support an exception to the filibuster rule requiring 60 votes to move forward on most legislation in the 50-50 Senate, said that hot topic pushed by many voting rights activists wasn't even discussed.Sen. Joe Manchin arrives at a meeting with members of Texas House Democratic Caucus at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Members of Texas House Democratic Caucus continued their efforts to meet with U.S.
The meeting comes a day after President Joe Biden made an impassioned speech calling Republican efforts to restrict voting rights an"assault on democracy" but didn't mention Manchin or the Senate filibuster rule.
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