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'She saved the Senate': Biden arrives at the Capitol with his voting rights plan already in tatters after Senator Sinema blew up his move to kill the filibuster by lining up with Joe Manchin and refusing to give her vote

• Kyrsten Simena made it clear she will not support a call from her party leaders to kill the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation 
• Her 19 minute speech essentially killed Dem efforts to pass voting legislation 
• Biden didn't speak as he arrived on Capitol Hill to meet with Democrats 
• Senator Joe Manchin described Sinema's speech as 'excellent'
• 'Very good. Excellent speech,' he said 
• Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Sinema 'saved' the Senate
• 'She saved the Senate as an institution,' he said
• The House passed a voting rights bill on Thursday and sent it to the Senate 
• Move is a procedural gambit to allow Chuck Schumer to bypass a Republican fillibuster in order to start debate on the legislation
• House passed measure on 220-203 party line vote  
• Barack Obama weighed in in op-ed calling for end of filibuster