Rep. Hank Johnson was among 10 demonstrators arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday in an orchestrated act of civil disobedience outside the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.
Democrats' push to pass federal voting rights legislation, he has yet to endorse ending the filibuster.
Progressive House Democrats, including Johnson and Reps. Jamal Bowman, D-N.Y., Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Al Green, D-Texas, who stood with demonstrators during Thursday's rally, said that Biden's speech was not enough.Rep. Hank Johnson and Cliff Albright, second from right, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, sing before being arrested during a protest to support voting rights outside of Hart Building in Washington, July 22, 2021.
Bowman urged Biden to take further action to help end the filibuster rule in the Senate, a change he said is needed to pass progressive bills on the Democratic agenda. Ending the filibuster would effectively allow bills to be passed with a simple majority, instead of the 60 needed with it in place. "These bills, they sit in the Senate, not moving at all. Why? Because of the racist Jim Crow relic called the filibuster," Bowman said.
"It's not just about the president giving a speech on racial equity, or writing a press release saying he's for racial equity. It's about your policies, it's about your advocacy, it's about your budget. So we are calling on the president to be a leader for racial justice and equity -- so that the
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