Sinema speaking on Senate floor ahead of Biden meeting with Dems

Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who is one of two Senate Democrats known to opposes changes to Senate rules to pass voting rights legislation, is speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, ahead of President Biden's lunchtime meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Mr. Biden is pressing lawmakers to alter Senate rules to enable two voting access bills to pass with a simple majority, rather than a super majority of 60 votes, and Arizona's Sinema and West Virginia's Joe Manchin have openly expressed their opposition to such a change.

In a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, the president said publicly for the first time that he supports nixing the filibuster for the voting bills.