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Biden, Harris visits Atlanta to push for voting reform bill
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Atlanta on Tuesday to discuss the need for federal legislation to protect the right to vote. But some civil rights activists, uninterested in another speech, don’t want to hear it.
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Atlanta on Tuesday to discuss the need for federal legislation to protect the right to vote. But some civil rights activists, uninterested in another speech, don’t want to hear it.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Atlanta on Tuesday to discuss the need for federal legislation to protect the right to vote. But some civil rights activists, uninterested in another speech, don’t want to hear it.
One activist in Atlanta said, "What we really want to see, given that he came down here, is that he's got an iron-clad deal in place. Anything short of that is really going to be disappointing."
President Joe Biden will deliver a speech Tuesday from Georgia on the sacred importance of voting rights and the imperative to protect them with legislation.
President Biden and Vice President Harris head to Atlanta — a city at the epicenter of past and present battles over voting rights — to make the case to advance stalled legislation in Congress.
President Joe Biden in recent days has singled out the protection of voting rights in the U.S. as a top priority, but some civil rights activists are uninterested in another speech.
Voting-rights activists are warning President Biden to skip his speech on voting rights — set for Tuesday in Atlanta — unless he intends to unveil a concrete plan to pass legislation that would reform the nation’s election system.
President Biden plans to increase pressure on Congress to pass voter protection laws by calling for an exception to the Senate’s filibuster rule, a Senate tradition that has allowed Republicans to repeatedly block a major priority of Democrats.
The president is traveling to Atlanta with Vice President Kamala Harris as part of an effort to sell lawmakers and the public on major voting rights legislation.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver a speech on voting rights Tuesday in Atlanta as Senate Democrats continue to trudge forward in their pursuit of voting rights legislation. Follow here for the latest news.
President Biden will ramp up his push for voting rights protections Tuesday when he and Vice President Harris travel to Atlanta to make the case for new federal legislation.
The president has been under increasing pressure to more aggressively combat threats to voting rights. And advocates say speeches are not a substitute for legislative action.
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