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Texas Senate Passes Voting Bill, as Runaway Democratic Rivals Push Federal Bill
[WSJ] The Texas Senate advanced a bill imposing stricter voting rules Tuesday, a day after their Democratic counterparts in the state House fled the state to prevent the bill’s final passage.

Dozens of House Democrats have vowed to stay in Washington, D.C. until the special legislative session ends Aug. 7 in order to kill the bill, which must pass both chambers. The House cannot approve legislation without a two-thirds quorum of its 150 members. The remaining House members voted 76-4 Tuesday morning to send law enforcement to find absent Democrats and return them "under warrant of arrest, if necessary."

Some Democratic senators were also absent Tuesday, but the body had enough members to conduct business and voted 18-4, along party lines, to pass the bill in its chamber.

Both chambers of the Republican-controlled Texas legislature, in a special legislative session that began last week, filed similar versions of the bill, which would broadly tighten voting rules across the state. Gov. Greg Abbott
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 called the special session after Democratic House members walked out before a voting deadline at the end of the regular legislative session in May, denying the body a quorum needed to vote on the proposed legislation.




Posted by: Fred 2021-07-14
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