{"id":7193,"date":"2022-02-08T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2022-02-08T19:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T19:28:38","slug":"kyrsten-sinemas-opposition-to-filibuster-reform-rests-on-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7193","title":{"rendered":"Kyrsten Sinema\u2019s opposition to filibuster reform rests on a myth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;on this issue of voting rights. Joe Manchin labored mightily to come up with a compromise bill so that he could entice 10 Republicans to make it bipartisan. He did not get a single one. As President Biden mentioned in his speech [on Tuesday], 16 Republicans currently in the Senate voted for the 2006 extension of the Voting Rights Act. Not one of them supports the John Lewis Act.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/1\/13\/22876563\/kyrsten-sinema-filibuster-bipartisanship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/1\/13\/22876563\/kyrsten-sinema-filibuster-bipartisanship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;on this issue of voting rights. Joe Manchin labored mightily to come up with a compromise bill so that he could entice 10 Republicans to make it bipartisan. He did not get a single one. As President Biden mentioned in his speech [on Tuesday], 16 Republicans currently in the Senate voted for the 2006 extension of the Voting Rights Act. Not one of them supports the John Lewis Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,964,1172,536,479],"class_list":["post-7193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-filibuster","tag-joe-manchin","tag-rights","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}