{"id":43203,"date":"2021-12-15T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43203"},"modified":"2021-12-15T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:24:28","slug":"democrats-push-manchin-on-nuclear-option-for-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43203","title":{"rendered":"Democrats push Manchin on &#8216;nuclear option&#8217; for voting rights"},"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 Democrats are escalating pressure on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to get behind using the \u201cnuclear option\u201d to change the filibuster and break a months-long stalemate on voting rights legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The flurry of talks \u2014 including dedicating a closed-door caucus lunch to the issue despite a public hyper-focus on passing President Biden\u2019s climate and social spending bill \u2014 comes as Democrats are facing intense pressure to pass election legislation though there isn\u2019t yet a clear path forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats are escalating pressure 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-43203","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\/43203","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=43203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43204,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43203\/revisions\/43204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}