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The governor had promised he would sign it. it was basically a foregone conclusion that the antivoting rights bill would become lawmaking it even harder to vote in the state of texas. it was a foregone conclusion that it was done. until it wasnt. again, this is what happened in may. two hours before the deadline to get that bill passed in the texas house, texas democrats quietly without any fanfare, without any announcement, one by one, started leaving the house chamber. there are 150 members of...

They want to see him go on the road and sell democracy like he sold the infrastructure plans he has been running through, and that are going to go through congress pretty soon, and i think thats what theyre hoping to see, and i think thats what were going to start seeing, president biden is going to take this on the road, and fight for as one aide put it to me, fight for democracy, and make it very clear it doesnt matter who you are in the country, you dont get to pick the winner unless youre th...

Disappearing act. we should tell you that work is still being done here in austin at the state capitol. the senate has been voting and passing bills but with no quorum in the lower chamber zero legislation can become law. the house speaker is calling for any lawmaker intentionally missing the session to return their $221 daily per diem while the governor continues to vow calling as many special sessions as needed once this one expires. >> they have a job to do. let me tell you something texas vo...

Democrats need to rely on a difficult education campaign to get out the vote. joining me, two of the democratic lawmakers from texas currently in d.c. to prevent a quorum in the state house, democratic estate ripives jessica gonzalez and tray fisher. good to say you. i want to ask about your colleagues who tested positive for break throughcovid while in d.c. how are they doing? >> theyre doing well. theyre isolated and trying to get some rest. >> any sense of how they got it? >> im not aware of ...

Take any additional precautions at this time, unless they do start to show symptoms of covid. >> amanda, this throws a wrench into. things how does this impact the democrats efforts to stall those voting restriction measures at the state texas state house? >> that is the question. there is still a large admission at play for this group of texan democratic reps. obviously, they came because of the 30 day special session going on in texas, they broke that quorum by coming here, to stall and put pr...

Pelosi says this shouldnt impact the panels ability to get the work done. >> we have a bipartisan quorum. we can proceed. >> reporter: now on the other side of the capitol the senate is set to vote soon on whether to begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. a vote is expected to fail because republicans want to see the final text first, and later this hour were going to talk about all of this with connecticut senator richard blumenthal hand massachusetts congresswoman katherine clark....

Road within two hours and spent the other 23 hours driving straight through washington alternating driving and baby duties. texas representative john busys wife molly is 27 weeks pregnant. they did not want to have to make that drive. none of the texas democrats who left the state to deny the texas house of representatives a quorum wants to be in washington tonight. but they have made the trip to washington to resist what president joe biden today called an assault on democracy. when vice presid...

Love in the air. we begin, though, right now. with the lengths that texas democratic state lawmakers have just gone to try to block republicans there from passi restrictive new voting law. they have left the state entirely, and are just minutes away from touching down at washingtons dulles airport. were expecting to hear from them, shortly, and talk to one of the top-democratic lawmakers as well. cnns dianne gallagher is there for us now. what is the latest on this flight to d.c. and what texas ...

State democratic leader costa, who will join us in a moment, wrote, quote, should you allow this to continue, senator mass masstriano will have built a frankenstein creation of a committee with limitless power, frighteningly controlled by a senator. to be clear, these republicans are not going to stop on their own. they are going to have to be stopped. leading off our discussion tonight, a democratic texas state representative, armando martinez, and the chief consecutive of hidalgo county, texas...