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Texas Governor
Greg Abbott blasted Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to prevent the Republicans from passing a controversial voting bill. By leaving the state, the Democrats denied the Republicans the quorum they needed to vote on the bill during a special session called by Abbott.
Speaking during an appearance on Once they step back into the state, they will be arrested and brought back to the Capitol, and we will be conducting business, he said.
It is the second time the Democrats have refused to show up to block the bill, which many critics say makes it harder for people to cast their ballots. The bill includes provisions that ban drive-thru voting, end 24-hour voting, and make it more difficult to vote by mail. Critics say that the new law targets Democratic and minority voters.
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Following President Biden’s speech on voting that was full of incendiary rhetoric, CNN decided Biden hadn’t gone far enough on Tuesday, accusing him of having brought
“a butter knife to a fight against a nuclear bomb,” even though he offered
“a remarkably important message” that
equated his adversaries to worse than Confederates where, if you support voter security measures, you endorse “the Big Lie” about the 2020 election.
Weekday afternoon
CNN Newsroom co-host Alisyn Camerota spoke first after the speech ended, gushing over Biden’s “very passionate speech about what he calls ‘the most serious test to our democracy since the Civil War’” in the form of
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President Biden spoke at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.Credit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
July 13, 2021
The For the People Act, the Democratic voting rights bill that President Biden urged Congress to pass in a major speech in Philadelphia this afternoon, was first introduced in January 2019. It was a simpler time: Few people outside Georgia had heard of Brad Raffensperger, Jan. 6 was just another date on the calendar, and the notion that large numbers of Republicans would join Donald J. Trump in baselessly denying his election loss seemed unlikely.
By Maria Recio
Special to American-Statesman
The lawmakers arrived on chartered jets paid for by the House Democratic Caucus.
Texas lawmakers plan to push Congress on the For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Furious Texas Republicans call the stunt a taxpayer-funded vacation.
DULLES, Virginia More than 50 Texas House Democrats arrived at the Dulles International Airport on Monday evening, leaving the state in a gambit to deny Republicans a quorum and thus prevent a vote Democrats say curbs voting rights.
Their only weapon, they say in the GOP-controlled Legislature, is to remove themselves and force gridlock.
It is the second time this summer that Texas Democrats have resorted to this tactic avoiding the House chamber but this time they fled the state, not just the state Capitol building, arriving in Washington in style by two private jets.