“I have to tell you that the most important thing we can do this Congress is to get voting rights done,” Democratic Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock says from the floor of the Senate. “Voting rights are preservative of all other rights. They lay the ground for all other debate. So to my Democratic colleagues I say while it is deeply unfortunate, it is more than apparent that it has been left to us to handle alone the task of safeguarding our Democracy. Sadly, many of our Republican friends have already cast their vote with voter suppression. And so the judgment of history is upon us. Future generations will ask, ‘When the democracy was in a 9-1-1 state of emergency, what did you do to put the fire out?’ Did we rise to the moment? Or did we hide behind procedural rules? I believe that we Democrats can figure out how to get this done even if it requires a change in the rules.”