A group of Democratic lawmakers in the US has asked the Congressional leadership to establish a bipartisan commission, modelled after the 9/11 panel, on the origins of the COVID-19 virus in China. The members of the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition, in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, said that the commission should be modelled after the 9-11 Commission. We write to you to express our strong support for the passage of legislation establishing a national commission on the COVID-19 pandemic, modelled on the 2002 legislation creating the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9-11 Commission, the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition wrote on Tuesday.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) â On Day 3 of Texas Democrats hunkering down in Washington to block tighter voting laws, Republicans back home settled into a new routine that boils down to turning the Democrats gambit into yet another advantage for the GOP in 2022.
With time and a commanding majority on their side, Texas Republicans who began the summer with a long to-do list aimed at pushing the state farther to the right were filling their sudden free time Wednesday hammering Democrats as obstructionists.
Despite being unable to pass any bills, GOP lawmakers promised to keep coming to work at the Texas Capitol. They say Democrats are blocking widely popular measures to lower property taxes and give teachers more money. And they are showing their resolve to eventually pass a new voting bill that includes a raft of changes that on the whole would make it harder to cast a ballot in Texas.
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Question of the Day By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Republicans were already rolling their eyes at the media hype surrounding the runaway Texas Democrats even before Vice President Kamala Harris compared them to Frederick Douglass and activists from the civil rights era.
At a Wednesday roundtable on voting rights, Ms. Harris extolled the “great sacrifice” of the nearly 60 state legislators who flew via private jet Monday to Washington to deny a quorum on a Republican-backed elections law.
By Susan Jones | July 14, 2021 | 11:45am EDT
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday called out Democrats, including President Joe Biden, for their outright lying and fake hysterics over state voting measures that make voting both accessible and fair.
He noted that states such as Texas and Georgia are expanding voting options, including some that were brand new in 2020 because of the pandemic. And unlike Democrats, who engage in silly hysterics, McConnell gave examples of what the states of Georgia and Texas are either doing or trying to do:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that he is perplexed by the ongoing unwillingness of some Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19. We need to keep preaching that getting the vaccine is important, he told reporters. Part of it is just convincing the American people of the importance of doing this.
While McConnell didn t say as much, that message is particularly important for members of his own party. Republicans and conservatives are much more likelythan others to tell pollsters that they have not and do not plan to take the vaccines, even amid a surge of new U.S. cases and with data showing hospitalizations and deaths almost entirely concentrated among unvaccinated populations.