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Democrats opposed the legislation because they say it will make it more difficult for some to vote.

We might be watching some of that unfold in real-time as the texas house is about almost an hour late to coming back from recess. they had to pause. and they went in to recess in this committee hearing on that election bill so all members could go to the floor. we have been waiting for an hour for them to have enough members on the floor to gavel back in. now, again, they can only delay this for so long. democrats were there at that committee hearing asking questions and attempting to talk about this bill. what was very apparent was that the republicans had not made any real changes in the hou...

America. >> what does it look like to you at this point? how do you move forward? what are you going to do? >> well, we're going to continue to hold the line and we're going to boycott the special session. there are still matters that are on that call that are very harmful to texans besides that election bill. we saw them move quickly. in fact, they tried to have a hearing on the same day that they had their so-called quorum. so we know that they're not interested in hearing from texans. so we're going to continue to raise awareness about the fraudulent way that the texas house is moving forwa...

With funding to combat climate change, paid medical and family leave. expanding the child tax credit. among other social policy issues that the biden administration has promised to try to pass this congress. and this matters because pelosi only has three votes she can lose in the house, with these proposals. and these are nine house moderate democrats that are threatening to withhold their vote on this bill. so, if they don't vote for this, if they don't vote for this budget resolution this bill did not pass. so math does not add up and the the bottom line here is house speaker nancy pelosi ha...

A filibuster is still underway in the Texas Senate Thursday morning.