WATCH: Speaker Pelosi gives weekly briefing after voting rights bills fail in the Senate
Speaker of the House of Representative Nancy Pelosi gives her weekly briefing Thursday, the day after voting rights bills fail in the Senate. Watch in the player above.
WATCH: Civil rights leaders testify in House Judiciary hearing on voter suppression
The House Judiciary committee will hold a hearing on Thursday on voter suppression.
Voting rights bill blocked by Republican filibuster
Democrats immediately pivoted toward a Senate rules change to push past the filibuster, but that too was expected to fail.
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At a Wednesday news conference to mark his first year in office, President Joe Biden is admitting that the pandemic has exhausted and demoralized many Americans.
Democrats could not persuade holdout senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia to change the Senate procedures on this one bill and allow a simple majority to advance it.
Voting legislation that is a cornerstone of the Democratic agenda and a top priority for civil rights leaders is on track for defeat.
Senators are returning to Washington under intense pressure to pass voting legislation in the face of stark criticism from civil rights leaders.
Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., President Joe Biden said Monday said in a video address on the day that commemorates the slain civil rights leader.
The family of Martin Luther King Jr. led a "Peace March" Monday morning across Washington, D.C.'s new Frederick Douglass bridge, calling for the passage of voting rights reform legislation, now stalled in the United States Senate.
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