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   Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) sharply   
   criticized Vice President Harris after she said on Tuesday that she   
   wants to scrap the legislative filibuster in order to codify Roe v.   
   Wade.   
      
   Manchin, one of the foremost backers of the 60-vote threshold, told CNN   
   that he will not support Harris’s bid for the White House. He said it   
   would be a massive mistake to move ahead with those plans if Democrats   
   keep hold of the upper chamber.   
      
   “Shame on her,” Manchin, who is retiring at year’s end, told CNN. “She   
   knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It’s the only   
   thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of   
   that, then this would be the House on steroids.”   
      
   In a statement, the West Virginia senator, who left the Democratic   
   Party to become an Independent in May, added that the filibuster   
   “stabilizes our democracy, promotes bipartisan cooperation and protects   
   our nation from partisan whiplash and dysfunction.”   
      
   “I have always said: ‘if you can’t change your mind, you can’t change   
   anything’ and I am hopeful that the Vice President remains open to   
   doing just that,” he said.   
      
   Sinema agreed.   
      
   “To state the supremely obvious, eliminating the filibuster to codify   
   Roe v Wade also enables a future Congress to ban all abortion   
   nationwide,” Sinema, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, wrote on X.   
      
   “What an absolutely terrible, shortsighted idea,” she added.   
      
   Harris has been outspoken for years about her support for scrapping the   
   legislative filibuster. She said in 2019 that she wanted to done away   
   with in order to pass the Green New Deal.   
      
   She also added in 2022 that it should be nixed in order to codify   
   abortion and voting rights.   
      
   Her comments on Tuesday came during an interview with Wisconsin Public   
   Radio.   
      
   “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris said. “To   
   actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom, and   
   for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about   
   their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.”   
      
   President Biden called for a carve-out in the filibuster in order to   
   reinstate Roe after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.   
      
   Manchin and Sinema both opposed the push. They are both retiring from   
   the upper chamber at the end of the year.   
      
   The West Virginia senator had been inching closer to supporting   
   Harris’s bid and was hoping to meet with her to discuss myriad topics.   
      
   “I’m never going to say never,” he said about possibly endorsing her   
   earlier in the month.   
      
   https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4896899-manchin-sinema-harris-   
   filibuster/   
      
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