Senate Republicans Use Filibuster to Kill Invoice That Would Guarantee Ladies Are Paid as A lot as Males

US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) Friday afternoon after failing to get at least 10 Republicans to join forces with Democrats in order not to thwart a vote on a bill to set up a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 uprising, pressed Frustration out.

Manchin, unwaveringly supportive of the Jim Crow era filibuster tactics, told reporters, “This job is not worth selling my soul to me.”

Manchin’s full remarks to Andrew Solender of Forbes on the Republican Vote to Block the Insurgency Commission Bill of Sept.

“This job is not worth it to me to sell my soul. What are you gonna do, vote me out? It’s not a bad option, I can go home. “

“If that’s what you want. But I sure won’t sell my soul when I know what’s right. And that’s right for us to start healing the land. You have to get this commission. “

Manchin, who has also announced that he will not support HR1 / S1, the “For the People Act” to protect voting rights, has positioned himself as a kind of power broker in view of his conservative election record (Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska, is classified as more liberal than Manchin.) He absolutely refused to allow the killing of the filibuster (which was used to prevent civil rights laws from being passed for the past 99 years and was put in place in the mid-20th century in particular).

Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal notes, “If the filibuster hadn’t existed, the 1/6 commission would have got 10-15 Republican votes.”

The funny thing is that if the filibuster hadn’t existed the 1/6 commission would have got 10-15 Republican votes.

Some people understand that, right? This bill * would * be cross-party if the filibuster hadn’t rewarded the total obstruction.

– Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) May 28, 2021

Manchin criticized his Republican colleagues after the vote failed by 54:35:

“The decision to put politics and political elections above the health of our democracy is unscrupulous. And they have to live with the betrayal of the oath that we all take. “