‘Recess Can Wait’: State Lawmakers Urge U.S. Senate To Pass Voting Rights Bill
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Democratic state lawmakers rallied in Washington to call on the Senate to suspend its August recess to pass the For The People Act.
Amid chants of “Recess can wait, democracy can’t,” nearly 150 state lawmakers from 30 states came to Washington on Tuesday to rally with Democratic U.S. senators and representatives and call on the Senate to suspend its August recess to pass voting rights and anti-gerrymandering legislation. These lawmakers arrived as reinforcements for the 50 Texas Democratic state legislators who fled their state 23 days ago in order to deny state House Republicans a quorum. The GOP lawmakers were trying to pass an election law that would make it harder for predominantly Democratic voting constituencies to vote and easier for Republican officials to overturn the results of elections they don’t like. “When we arrived here, we said that our job was to rally the nation and bring people to Washington, D.C., because just by chance we would not only get the Senate to hear us, we would get them to act,” said Texas state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, a Democrat.
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