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Charles E. Schumer, Senate Majority Leader (D-N.Y.)

“Georgia, Iowa, Montana, Florida, Alabama, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas — this is where some of these policies [to restrict voting rights] that I just mentioned are now law. ... The actions in state legislatures were totally partisan. None of these voter-suppression laws were passed with bipartisan support, not one.”

Washington Post rated this: Wrong
Joe Biden, President

“I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why didn’t Biden get this done?’ Well, because Biden only has a majority of, effectively, four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”

Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios

Washington Post says: There’s no evidence that either Manchin or Sinema vote more with Republicans. But they are certainly more moderate than other Democrats and in a 50-50 Senate, they have the power to block any part of Biden’s agenda.