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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 28, 2021 The stage is now set for enacting historic voting rights, anti-corruption, and anti-gerrymandering legislation. This essential legislation – the Freedom to Vote Act – will overturn the unprecedented wave of voter suppression laws passed this year by Republican-controlled state legislature around the country and provide protections to […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 21, 2021 On Wednesday, Senate Republicans used a filibuster to block consideration of Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) compromise voting rights bill, the Freedom to Vote Act. Every Republican Senator voted to deny the Senate even the ability to debate the Manchin compromise bill on the Senate floor. This battle, […]
“We hope Senators Manchin and Sinema choose to be on the right side of history. Failing to do so could be fatal to the future of the American experiment.” “Today we face a full-blown national crisis for our democracy – with the voting rights of millions of Americans about to be sacrificed solely for partisan […]
Statement Of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Today, Senate Republicans used a filibuster to block consideration of Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) compromise voting rights bill, the Freedom to Vote Act. This battle, however, is by no means over. The Act would protect the sacred right to vote for all eligible Americans by overriding the wave […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 14, 2021 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced today that he will file cloture next Monday, October 18, on a motion to proceed on the Freedom to Vote Act. This is the compromise legislation engineered by Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who had opposed an earlier version of the […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 7, 2021 Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made his bones in the Senate on political money – both raising influence-buying contributions and blocking efforts to curb the corrupting impact of this money in Washington. McConnell also built power and influence with his Republican colleagues on his unquenchable thirst […]
“Protecting the sacred right to vote for all eligible Americans should be a goal for all Members of Congress.” Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, introduced in the Senate on Tuesday, is a vitally important step forward in the work to protect the sacred right to vote […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 1, 2021 “Get ready for a Perils of Pauline rollercoaster ride in Congress in the coming weeks.” Legislation to prevent a government shutdown passed on Wednesday. Legislation to increase or suspend the debt ceiling will pass. Infrastructure legislation will pass. Budget reconciliation legislation will pass. And, legislation to protect […]
The former President continues to spread his Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. According to a recent poll, Trump has managed to convince an astonishing 78 percent of Republicans that President Biden was not legitimately elected, even though there is not a shred of evidence to support Trump’s blatantly false claim. […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer The serial abuses of power by former President Trump continue to cast a pall over our democracy. We cannot ignore how much damage Trump did to our constitutional system of government and we must ensure that it never happens again. The Protecting Our Democracy Act, introduced today by Representative […]
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