Warnock: If Dems Control Senate, We Should Get Rid of ‘Arcane’ Filibuster So People Can ‘Be Heard’

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) argued that if Democrats take control of the Senate, they should get rid of the filibuster, “and no arcane Senate procedural rule should block people’s ability to be heard in their democracy.”

Warnock said, “I’m proud of all that we did when I first entered the Senate, it was the 117th Congress. We passed a lot of legislation. We cut child poverty by 40% for six months. We did infrastructure. We did clean energy, the biggest clean energy bill in human history, a whole lot of good, coming right out of the pandemic. I have to tell you, looking at what’s happening to our democracy right now, it was a mistake not to take voting rights first, to get the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act over the finish line. I’m proud of all that work we did.