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I spoke with a house majority with Representative James Clyburn

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about the challenges that we are seeing within voting rights

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throughout the country. Um it was very interesting to

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speak with them today, especially as that's something that

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is President biden's focus right now. Voting rights in

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America. Take a listen. I want people to

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remember that martin Luther King Jr was a minister.

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He um, he was trained in biblical studies.

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He pastored, he was never elected to anything.

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But I believe it's during this time that we should

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remember at least one passage of scripture that I'm sure

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King preached from very often. I know my dad

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did who was a minister and it passes found In

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first Corinthians 13th Chapter summed up in the 11th verse

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and it's this when I was a child, I

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spoke as a child, I understood as a child

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etcetera. But when I became a man I put

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away childish things. I think we would do well

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to remember that as this country continues to grow and

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to mature things that were apple Poe In 1776.

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We're not in 1976 and certainly or not today we

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are maturing as a country and as a country retreat

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matures, we have to grow with it. And

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so we are at an inflection point in the country

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, are we going to continue our pursuit of a

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more perfect union or are we going to give up

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on that pursuit and allow ourselves to drift into an

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autocracy. That to me is, what is that

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state today. So ask me consider the life and

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celebrate the legacy martin Luther king Jr let's think about

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who is what we are as a country and whether

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or not we're going to give up on the ideals

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of this country or continue to press forward. And

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as we reflect on the future and moving forward,

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the for the People Act and the john Lewis act

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are just a few of the bills held up in

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the Senate that seek to advance voting rights and bipartisan

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support is not essentially needed to pass these acts.

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So what do you want for your constituents to do

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to move these bills along? Well, one of

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the things I think we have to learn to do

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as people and I said is to young people all

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the time. Sometimes, you know, to move

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an agenda forward. We have to get outside of

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our own comfort zones. And I think those two

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pieces of legislation demonstrate that in fact when the house

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past, those two pieces of legislation, they were

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different before the People act is what came out of

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the house. And people like joe Manchin said that

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there were things about the for the People act that

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they found unacceptable. He was given the opportunity to

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sit down and develop another piece of legislation and he

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came up with a piece of legislation that he calls

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the freedom to vote act. And so joe biden

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hasn't supported that legislation, Stacey Abrams down there in

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Georgia announced her support for it. And I came

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out publicly for the bill, but still it's not

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come to the floor of the Senate. And so

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I think that what we have to do is learn

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that we're getting outside of our comfort zone. It's

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now time for your mansion to step outside of his

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comfort zone and not be complicit in this filibustering of

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his own bill. This is his bill that we're

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all trying to bring to a vote. And he

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seemed to not wanting to break off the filibuster of

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his own legislation that the person has endorsed. I

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have endorsed it, Stacey Abrams has endorsed and most

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members of the House of Representatives or supporting his bill

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And Congressman. While I still have you one last

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question, where do you think the filibuster rule stands

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in 2022? That's something that everyone's eyes are on

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today especially. Well, I think people are once

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again, this country is not the same as it

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was back in 1957 with strong thurman filibustered set the

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record filibuster in the 1957 Civil Rights Act. A

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lot of people think it was the 64 act.

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No, it was 1957 filibuster, the principle of

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fairness. And so what we're going to have to

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do is recognize that this country is different today.

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Uh and we need to make the adjustments that we

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need to continue this pursuit. Oh, a democracy

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. Yeah. This is an experiment and we are

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very young democracy and we have seen democracies failed in

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other parts of the world. Are we going to

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sit idly by and watch this Democracy become unraveled?

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Or are we going to rededicate ourselves uh to leave

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in a country for our Children and grandchildren that they

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can be proud of? And so this filibuster uh

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has to be modified. The filibuster may have been

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okay Back in 1957, but remember in 1957 you

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had to stand on the floor and you have to

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hold the floor in order for your filibuster can continue

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. We changed that today. You can sit downtown

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near the spa and falling in the filibuster. That

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is untenable. We cannot allow this democracy to fall

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to such undemocratic principles. And so we have to

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modify this filibuster, making sure that no filibuster will

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be allowed for constitutional leashes like voting just like we

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don't allow the filibuster to stop a budgetary issue.

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We call that reconciliation, which I've been saying to

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people, is a word more aptly applied to constitutional

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issues than the budget