President Joe Biden called on the Senate to change its filibuster rules to pass voting rights bills.
"Today, I'm making it clear, in order to protect our democracy, I support changing the Senate rules whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights," Biden said in a speech on Protecting the Right to Vote at Atlanta University Center Consortium Tuesday.
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