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"I am demanding all of our colleagues in D.C. to contact my staff immediately in order to secure their seat on the plane and return to Austin in order to do the state’s business. The State of Texas is waiting," Phelan said in a statement.MORE: Texas Democrats meet with Manchin on voting rights A group of Democrats fled Texas on Monday to break quorum and wait out the end of their ongoing special legislative session in an effort to block the advancement of dual Republican-backed bills that would revise the state’s voting and election laws. Voting rights advocates say, if enacted, those bills would make it harder for Texans to have ballot access. By breaking quorum, the legislators also stalled the advancement of a slate of other bills the state’s Republican Gov.
republicans will not work with democrats so why should democrats work with republicans.......
Why doesnt Phelan take a joy ride in that jet with his fellow Insurrectionists to N Korea....
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Greg Abbott vows to lock Texas Legislature doors with absconding Democrats insideAbbott has also said that the Democrats will be arrested upon re-entering the state. Democrats have said that he lacks the authority to do so. I am so happy the Dems left Texas. Gov. Abbott. You could have worked with them. Instead, you choose to make it all your way. No compromise. Just all your way. You are in a bind and looking very foolish. GOP is going to find themselves very short of votes in the mid terms. Deserting Democrats go on vacation to DC to party with Pelosi. Texas needs to arrest them and teach these outsiders that Texans don't run away from their jobs!
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‘Forget The Filibuster’: Manchin Rejects Voting Rights ‘Carve-Out’ After Meeting With Texas DemocratsManchin insisted a basic election reform bill would get GOP support, suggesting Democrats’ sweeping bill failed because it was ‘800 pages long.’
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Texas Democrats meet with Manchin on voting rightsTexas Democrats met with key Senate Democrat Joe Manchin on Thursday about voting rights but all involved say making an exception to the filibuster rule never came up. He needs to be made irrelevant in the next election.
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Texas Democrats put personal, professional life on hold to protect right to voteMore than 50 members of the Texas House descended on Washington D.C. in an effort to stop a Republican-backed voter suppression bill, leaving their families and postponing major life events. Texas State Reps. Celia Israel and Erin Zwiener join Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss their effort to persuade Congress to “move forward on legislation that will protect the freedom to vote not only for Texans, but for every single American.” They are criminals by law and elected officials, why did they do it? Voter suppression? Is that your journalistic expert opinion? -BigMedia politics... This is how it needs to be
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Texas Democrats 'risk it all,' lawmakers from past statehouse revolts sayState legislators from both parties who have participated in past walkouts in Wisconsin, Oregon and Indiana defend the tactic, saying the political costs are high, but well worth the risk.
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