Clyburn offers Manchin history lesson to clear Senate path for Biden reforms [View all]

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Majority whip faces up to West Virginia senator on filibuster

Georgia voting law is ‘new Jim Crow’, congressman insists

Richard Luscombe
@richlusc

Sun 11 Apr 2021 13.48 EDT

Jim Clyburn, the House majority whip, said on Sunday he intends to give Joe Manchin a lesson in US history as he attempts to clear a path for Joe Biden on voting rights and infrastructure.

Manchin, a moderate Democratic senator from West Virginia, has emerged as a significant obstacle to the president’s ambitious proposals by insisting he will not vote to reform or end the Senate filibuster, which demands a super-majority for legislation to pass, to allow key measures passage through the 50-50 chamber on a simple majority basis.

His stance has drawn praise from Republicans: Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, hailed Manchin as the politician “almost singlehandedly preserving the Senate”. But Democrats appear to be losing patience – and none more vociferously than Clyburn.

“I’m going to remind the senator exactly why the Senate came into being,” Clyburn, from South Carolina, told CNN’s State of the Union, refreshing criticism of Manchin that has included saying he feels “insulted” by his refusal to fully embrace voting rights reform.

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