Senator Pat Toomey released a statement on Tuesday (June 22) explaining why he voted against Senate Bill 1, which is being promoted by Democrats as the For the People Act.
Toomey wrote –
This highly flawed, partisan bill is not about ‘voting rights,’ or fighting disenfranchisement – it is about Democrats’ longstanding efforts to usurp states’ rights in order to tip the scales of future elections in their favor. Among its most egregious provisions, the so-called ‘For the People Act’ would effectively nullify state voter ID laws, mandate public funding of political campaigns, and transform the Federal Election Commission into a partisan body empowered to limit free speech.
Toomey joined a filibuster by his fellow Republicans that was successful in preventing the bill from even being debtated on the Senate floor.