# Senate voting-rights bills fail while Harris is vice president and a public whip

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 19 January 2022 Senate voting-rights bills Harris had publicly whipped failed to overcome a filibuster.

## Context

Manchin and [Sinema](/people/kyrsten-sinema) opposed changing the filibuster. Neighbouring Dobbs is later 2022. She did not sit as parliamentarian.

IRA 2022 is a later successful tie. Dobbs is later.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

United States Senate carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed failure of voting-rights bills she whipped is a dated civic-access miss.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 19 January 2022 Senate failure of the voting-rights package, independently reported, with her public whip role.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Senate did not change the filibuster. Manchin and Sinema blocked. [Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) headed the administration.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Senate voting-rights bills fail while Harris is vice president and a public whip, not a later speech about Senate voting-rights bills fail while Harris is vice president and a public whip.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Senate voting-rights bills fail while Harris is vice president and a public whip on 2022-01-19 is not a licence to treat every later United States Senate communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Senate voting-rights bills fail while Harris is vice president and a public whip into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She whipped as VP. The Senate did not change the filibuster. Manchin and Sinema blocked. Biden headed the administration. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senate-voting-rights-bills-fail-filibuster-2022-01-19/
- https://www.senate.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-voting-rights-2022