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Theres strength in every family story. learn more about yours. at ancestry. please register. ring the bell. decorum is present. >> a quorum is president. bob bang of the comically enormous gavel in the state house this evening marked a sudden and of texas democrats effort to stop the republican controlled legislature in texas from passing a bill that would make it harder for people in

House this saturday, 8:00 a.m. local time. as for the three houston house democrats whose decision to return was determinative here, they issued a statement saying they felt they had to come back to address the covid surge. theyre proud of what texas democrats accomplished by breaking quorum in the first place. they say, quote, now we continue the fight on the house floor. on the house floor they are outnumbered, but they have proved very resourceful over these past few weeks and months. watch t...

That bang of the comically enormous gavel in the texas state house marked the sudden end of texas democrats effort to stop the republican-controlled legislature in texas from passing a bill that will make it much harder for people in texas to vote in upcoming elections. their tactic to try to stop republicans from doing this was that they left the capitol so the texas house couldnt pass anything. most of the house democrats were actually still holding out and still trying to work that strategy a...

More breaking news tonight. diane gallagher joins us now with the latest on this. what have you learned, diane? >> reporter: anderson, 38 days after those texas democrats got on planes and flew to washington, d.c., receiving praise from the white house on down, their form break ended with a whimper instead of a bang. the attempt was to block restrictive voting legislation in the lone star state as they had the slimmest of margins. tonight three new democrats showed up on the house floor giving t...

Filibuster ended. on the house side of the texas state capital, they stopped it by denying the quorum, with all of them going to d.c.. that did work for weeks to slow things down, but now, as of tonight, thats over. the bill has already been scheduled for a hearing in the house, this saturday, 8 am local time. as for the three houston house democrats whose decision to return was determinative here, they issued a statement today saying they felt they had to come back to address the covid surge. t...

We are talking about the basic right to vote. can you believe at a time we are talking about democracy in afghanistan that we are allowing states to go back into states rights in terms of voting in the united states? this is as fundamental as it can get, and the heroes of this movement, like we give heroes of the 60s when i was a kid and some unborn, the heroes of this movement has to say to those texas democrats that stood and did not waver. you know, in the church we have a scripture that says...

Now, democrats, as weve been reporting, they tried to stop the anti-voting rights bill in the senate, in the texas senate, with 15-hour talking filibuster. but after she made it through 15 hours of that, republicans still passed it. moments after her filibuster ended. on the house side of the texas state capitol, they tried to stop it, of course, by denying the quorum with all those house democrats going to washington, d.c. that did work for weeks to slow things down, but now, as of tonight, tha...

Get them here. make them leave it to me and you to trash all the bigots. they shouldnt be thinking about the politics on this. im a little frustrated it feels like they are. >> you know what? i am far more interested in how we get that mission done than in knowing what joe biden knew from the cia on saturday. i feel like the media has been more obsessed with how did biden not know the taliban were terrible? we get it. youre pissed off it didnt go smith smoothly. there is now a quorum in texas. t...

More hands of partisan legislatures. we saw this back in march, and it is just kind of continuing to happen. even in the texas bill that eventually was killed in may by the first time the democrats broke quorum, that had a provision that specifically said overturning elections, and it basically lowered the threshold of the amount of fraud and what the fraud had to be linked to that could potentially overturn an election. >> yeah. you didnt have to prove fraud. i mean what could go wrong with thi...

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