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Texas Democrats Take Fight to Capitol Hill to Stop GOP Anti-Voter Bills
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1:18Now PlayingTexas statehouse Democrats are on Capitol Hill calling for Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
The Act would restore sections of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court previously weakened.
This comes after the Texas Demorats fled Monday to Washington to try and block the GOP's sweeping elections overhaul bill that makes it harder to vote in the state.
A similar move successfully killed an earlier version of the bill on the last day of the legislative session in late May, and lawmakers are hoping for a repeat during the 30-day special session called by the state's Republican governor, Greg Abbott.
Democrats have two main objectives.
First, they hope to deprive the Legislature of a quorum - the minimum number of representatives who have to be present for the body to operate.
The second goal has probably already been achieved, drawing attention to the Republican push to tighten Texas voting laws.
Many Democrats in Congress have hoped their own sweeping elections bill making it easier to register and vote nationwide could counter pushes in the opposite direction in Texas and several GOP-controlled states.
Texas state Democratic lawmakers have been pleading for that bill’s passage in Washington for weeks.
But congressional Democrats so far have been reluctant to change Senate filibuster rules to overcome GOP opposition in that chamber and allow it to pass with just 50 votes.
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