{"id":36522,"date":"2021-06-17T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36522"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:46:30","slug":"mcconnell-shoots-down-manchins-voting-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36522","title":{"rendered":"McConnell shoots down Manchin&#8217;s voting compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Senate GOP Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) said on Thursday that Republicans will oppose a compromise election reform proposal put forward by Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would make this observation about the revised version &#8230; all Republicans I think will oppose that as well if that were to be what surfaced on the floor,&#8221; McConnell told reporters, referring to Manchin&#8217;s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s comments, which came in a press conference with GOP senators railing against the For the People Act, are the latest signal that the election bill will fail during a procedural vote next week due to a GOP filibuster.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate GOP Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) said on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36523,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36522\/revisions\/36523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}