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Anticipate that they would be able to get the votes to blow up the filibuster, because joe manchin and krysten sinema have said they wont blow it up. so there is no carve out there, and so voting rights is going to be, this voting reform bill, and any voting reform bill is going to be stuck in the mud. >> and victoria, looking at what is happening across the country, and in your state alone, the texas statehouse is moving ahead with their voting restrictions with a quorum there, and 18 states th...

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Have anything to do beyond some of these delay tactics to keep this from passing. the math just isnt there for them. but i will say the will appears to still be there at this point. >> and what happens after the committee vote? >> so just like any other bill, it will go to the full house. now, if they have a quorum there on the floor, it will likely pass along party lines. but a little bit of a new step that the house put in talking about during the committee hearing this morning saying they wan...

Bill. three democratic members of the texas house returned to work in austin last week, breaking ranks with the rest of their caucus and ending a weeks-long boycott that has successfully blocked the bill from moving forward and allowing a quorum to be established in the state house for the first time since july. a house committee has been hearing testimony all day long today from members of the public who advocated both for and against the bill, which among other things will prohibit 24-hour pol...

Is because they had had a 14-hour hearing before the democrats broke quorum. the republican bill presenter was asked if they had a chance to look at the racial impact of the legislation since over the past month. each time that presenter said no, they have not looked at that. and of course, that is what prompted many of the democrats to leave in the first place, saying they felt they had no choice because of the disproportionate impact that this would have on black and brown voters, disabled vot...

How long can you stay away from providing a quorum? a year? until the next election? i have to tell you that i cover the congress, and i dont think that the cavalry is coming to help you guys in terms of a federal voting law any time soon. >> i appreciate the perspective, and i believe in hope, and moral consciousness and i believe it is elevated to the top of the talking points at a national level, because people are fed up. when you are looking at the redistricting, it can flip the balance of ...

Have one today, but i will not be part of it today. and many of them going back today will have second thoughts of questioning the legitimacy of the quorum last week. but if there is a quorum, we are going down the wrong road here, and we are seeing the republicans acting with the bills in committee and no negotiations and no discussion and no public testimony, and treating the committee process as if it is the floor which means bills can be heard in 40 minutes and this is not bipartisan or prag...

Thursday. the speaker called it, declared quorum, which we all hollered foul about. so today we had a member show up on the house floor, a democratic member who called for verification to ensure there wasnt cheating. this is why it took them an hour and a half to establish quorum, and every day were going to make them work for this. we are the minority in texas. we can only do so much, but this week can do and were committed to do it. >> you know, beto orourke, we talked to the mayor of houston ...

♪♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪ just two pills for all day pain relief. aleve it, and see whats possible. welcome back. we are still awaiting the president to deliver remarks on covid vaccinations, but meanwhile after a standoff that lasted more than a month, the texas republicans say that there is a quorum in the statehouse of representatives to allow them to take up a bill similar to the sweeping voting legislation to the house of representatives. and this is what led to the democrats leaving ...