We Asked Vice President Kamala Harris If She's Pushing Senate To Change Filibuster
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🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Vice President Harris talked to NPR's Asma Khalid about the administration's path forward on their voting rights agenda given the major roadblock in the Senate: some Democrats in the chamber are unwilling to change the filibuster, a rules quirk that forces a sixty-to-forty majority to pass most legislation.
And many Democrats from the Texas statehouse have come to Washington D.C. to meet with federal lawmakers, fleeing their own state in a procedural stunt to stall a suite of voting restrictions proposed by Republicans there.
This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Asma Khalid, and KUT reporter Ashley Lopez.
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| 0:30.5 | I'm currently waiting for my family to arrive home so I can see their faces in real life for the |
| 0:34.9 | first time in 386 days. This podcast was recorded at. Oh man, it's a one 19 Eastern here in the US on |
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| 1:02.1 | that now feels so special. Hey there, it's the npr. Politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover |
| 1:07.3 | the White House. I must my colleague. I also cover the White House. And today, President Biden is |
| 1:12.2 | delivering a major speech focused on voting rights. It's something many progressive allies have |
| 1:17.4 | been pushing for for months. And also something they say is not enough. The president is in Philadelphia |
| 1:23.4 | today talking about it at the National Constitution Center. We will have coverage at npr.org and on |
| 1:28.8 | that thing called the radio since the speech is happening after we taped this podcast. But Osma, |
| 1:34.5 | you just got off the line with Vice President Kamala Harris and you talked to her about how the |
| 1:39.7 | administration is approaching this, what they're going to do, and their response to all of this pressure. |
| 1:45.0 | That's right. And I guess for longtime listeners of the podcast, y'all probably recall that the |
| 1:50.1 | Vice President has been tapped by the administration as the point person to handle voting rights. |
| 1:55.0 | And so it was it was really helpful to have some time to chat with her about how she's been seeing |
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