The U.S. Senate Rules Committee held its first field hearing in two decades at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta Monday, as part of an ongoing Democratic push for federal voting legislation.
An attempt to bring a federal voting bill up for debate last month failed in the Senate without Republican support, but Rules Committee Chairwoman Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said she is committed to continuing the campaign — in part by drawing attention to state laws like Georgia’s that would be superseded by federal legislation.
She called Georgia’s Republican-led voting law “Exhibit A” among states that have passed voting restrictions and changes in the wake of the 2020 election.
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