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In reply to the discussion: Joe Manchin votes with Republicans 54% of the time (from 2018) [View all]karynnj
(59,501 posts)I think some pieces of BBB will survive - even if they are just the ones Manchin is ok with. On climate change, I think it is possible that some Republicans will vote for a stand alone bill that helps somewhat. In 2009- 2010, if you look at the Senators who indicated that they would support the Senate version of the Markey bill that John Kerry was trying to put together, you would see that there were over 10 Democrats then unwilling to say yes because they were from rust belt states - Senator Sherrod Brown from Ohio was an exception and he had worked with Kerry to make the bill more acceptable. There were then several Republicans for it. (Had all the Democrats backed it, it would have had the needed 60 votes.)
As to voting rights, if we can't pass legislation, the DOJ needs to get more involved.
I would rephrase your point to say that getting some help on both BBB and voting rights COULD be important to prevent going back to McConnell. My point is that McConnell being Majority leader precludes anything like BBB, voting rights, women's rights etc and it insures endless investigations of Democrats. It is WORSE than the loss of those two incredibly important bills - because that option INCLUDES not having them and adds lots of even worse things.