By Melanie Arter | May 7, 2021 | 10:36am EDT Adri Perez, with Common Cause 866ourvote, holds an emergency ballot from a person hospitalized with Covid-19 at Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas on November 3, 2020. (Photo by JUSTIN HAMEL/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Thursday defended Texas’ proposed new voting law Senate Bill 7, which cleared the Texas House on Friday, saying that a majority of Texas voters want voter ID and signature verification on mail-in ballots, and pointing out that local businesses are not complaining about it – only companies from outside the state. “We've already passed Senate bill 7 which American Airlines criticized before they read it, and let me say I'm happy to come and debate any one of those CEOs of any company on your show for 5 or 6 minutes, and I’ll totally destroy them. Number one, the poll will be released by businesses in Texas today. You don't see local businesses complaining about our law,” Patrick told Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”