Manchin meets with Moody, Texas Dems on federal voting rights
WASHINGTON, DC U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a key vote in the effort to pass federal voting rights legislation, on Thursday said he and a group of Texas House Democrats including El Paso’s Joe Moody, who have fled their state in an effort to block restrictive voting bills, have come to a “total agreement” on what they want, which is “basically to protect voting rights.”
Since arriving in Washington on Monday, Texas Democrats have sought meetings with members of Congress to urge them to pass federal voting rights legislation, including the For the People Act, the sweeping Democratic voting and election bill shot down by Senate Republicans last month.
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El Paso s Joe Moody is stripped of his speaker pro tem position, the city manager gets a raise and El Paso Matters moves into a newsroom.
El Paso s Joe Moody is stripped of his speaker pro tem position, the city manager gets a raise and El Paso Matters moves into a newsroom.
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