Texas House Democrats spar with congressional Republicans over their protest of state voting bills
Texas Tribune
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July 29, 2021 7:50 pm
State Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, testified at a House Oversight and Reform s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee hearing on Democracy in Danger: The Assault on Voting Rights in Texas on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 29, 2021.
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Texas Republicans in Congress took on Texas House Democrats on Thursday in a tense, four-hour congressional subcommittee meeting that drilled into the technicalities of voter restriction bills sitting in limbo back in Austin and at times erupted into angry accusations.
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Texas Republicans in Congress took on Texas House Democrats on Thursday in a tense, four-hour congressional subcommittee meeting that drilled into the technicalities of voter restriction bills sitting in limbo back in Austin and at times erupted into angry accusations.
U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon, a freshman Republican from Sherman, was particularly fired up. At one point he accused Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth of calling her Republican colleagues racist.
She hadn’t said her colleagues were racist, Collier said. “They’re uninformed.”
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