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Sinema votes against changing filibuster to pass voting-rights bill

On 19 January 2022 Senator Kyrsten Sinema joined Senator Joe Manchin and every Republican in voting down a rules change that would have let Democrats pass voting-rights bills by simple majority.

Kyrsten Sinema (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 19 January 2022 Senator Kyrsten Sinema joined Senator Joe Manchin and every Republican in voting down a rules change that would have let Democrats pass voting-rights bills by simple majority. Her vote to keep the filibuster effectively ended the legislation's chances, and she was later censured by Arizona Democrats over it.

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    Sinema votes against changing filibuster to pass voting-rights bill. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.npr.orgchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: sinema+filibuster+voting · verified
  2. 2.nbcnews.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: sinema+filibuster+voting · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Sinema votes against changing filibuster to pass voting-rights bill. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sinema-votes-against-filibuster-change-voting-rights-2022-01-19

https://factrail.ai/facts/sinema-votes-against-filibuster-change-voting-rights-2022-01-19

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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