(#4590) The Senate needs to come back into session to work on the House passed John Lewis Act

      These traditions of taking time off from legislative work are outdated and disadvantageous to our American society. Marking time may be okay in the military so as to be ready to engage at a moments notice but not in our society at large. We need solutions now, not when it is convenient for our legislators to come back to work. I know the legislators are doing some work in their states but that work pales in comparison to the solutions needed to address our current national troubles. Especially now with the nefarious state republicans going full bore on deny voting rights to those they think vote against them.
     The republican party is working overtime to deny voting rights while we democrats are more often lollygagging about with no intent to hurry to confront those vote denying laws. There is no putting all the eggs in one basket here, hoping for ending the Senate filibuster. We democrats need to come back into session in the Senate so as to find all ways to combat the attack of republicans on our democracy. There will be no help from republicans in the Senate except for the possible exception of Lisa Murkowski who may side with democrats on protecting voting rights. But not even she is probable and is more likely improbable.
     There is an angst among us out here in our nation about what our Senate will do to protect voting rights. As we wait for an elongated Senate recess to proceed the angst just gets that much more intolerable. The powers that be in the White House need to be pushing so hard for voting rights protections that actually become law that having the Senate back in session makes that likelihood much less angst ridden. It may be just me but I doubt it as many I know are anxiously awaiting a turn by democratic Senators who see their roles as greater than the needs of our society. Their obstruction of the core fundamental role of voting is beneath reason and they need to be in session so that we can put it to them that their responsibility is to us not to some Senate rule.