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spent hours on the Senate floor proposing amendments that would increase healthcare access and lower costs, invest
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spent hours on the Senate floor proposing amendments that would increase healthcare access and lower costs, invest
allows the minority party to put forward numerous amendments to force difficult votes in what we call
Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Fifteenth Amendment legally granted the right to vote to people … nearly a hundred years, the Fifteenth Amendment was regularly defied, and Black citizens’ right to vote was heavily
issue to the Senate floor — a clean, simple amendment that would require Americans to show a driver … words. Every single Senate Democrat voted against the amendment with a vote of 53-47. But this
fraud in our health care system, a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget, and making non-addictive
obstruct and delay. They filed dozens of amendments to weaken the legislation. My Republican colleagues and I stood