Administration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2021

December 15, 2021

Q. Mr. President, is your working on this preventing Republicansââ

Voting Rights Legislation

Q. Mr. President, should congressional Democrats move on to working on voting rights legislation this year and put off your Build Back Better plan to 2022?

The President. If we can get the congressional voting rights done, we should do it. If we can't, we got to keep going. There's nothing domestically more important than voting rights. It's the single biggest issue.

Q. So you support a pivot this year to doing that?

NOTE: The President spoke at 3:27 p.m. A reporter referred to H.R. 5376.

Categories: Interviews With the News Media : Exchange with reporters :: Dawson Springs, KY. Locations: Dawson Springs, KY.

Subjects: Civil rights : Voting rights; Communications : News media :: Presidential interviews; Kentucky : President's visit.

DCPD Number: DCPD202101059.

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