Utah Sen. Mike Lee has supported previous changes to the filibuster backed by Republicans when they’ve been in control of the Senate.
Lee has supported previous changes to the filibuster when Republicans have been in control of the Senate.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, joined by Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., left, leaves a private GOP lunch meeting as he continues to press for a vote on his proposal to barring vaccine mandates that the Biden administration has ordered for U.S. companies, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021.On Monday, Utah Sen.
Schumer, D-N.Y., said he would force a vote by Jan. 17 on changing the Senate’s rules if Republicans continue to block voting rights legislation that has been tied up since last year. Current rules require a 60-vote supermajority to end debate on a proposal and proceed to a vote. That’s a difficult proposition in the evenly-divided Senate. Democrats only have a majority because of Vice President Kamala Harris’ ability to cast a tie-breaking vote.
“Republican officials in states across the country have seized on the former president’s Big Lie about widespread voter fraud to enact anti-democratic legislation and seize control of typically non-partisan election administration functions,” Schumer wrote. In a statement, Lee, a Republcian, ripped Schumer’s letter, saying changing the long-standing rules is “absurd and dangerous to the institution itself.”
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