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as this voting emergency worsens, congress has the power to make it right. and yet, two critical pieces of legislation remain stalled, leaving our rights hanging in the balance. joining me now is texas state representative ron reynolds. mr. reynolds, more than 50 democratic state lawmakers have texas have now been holed up in a hotel in washington, d.c. for longer than a week. you all fled your state to deny returns a quorum in an effort to block restrictive voting measures from being passed. what s the end game here? how long will you stay? rev, it is great to be on your show. how long? we are willing to stay as long as it takes to impart upon congress to pass hr-1 and hr-4. the special session is set to
north carolina is in the middle of that because of the jingles case. but the supreme court a couple weeks ago made that harder. so that s made congress s job harder. but we are going to get it done on the house side, send to it the senate, and hopefully they will just get it out in time for redistricting. now, in the past couple of weeks, we ve seen texas democrats flee their state to try and block republicans from passing voting bills. you saw one just before you on this show. we have seen your colleague, congresswoman george beatty in handcuffs simply for protesting our voting rights on capitol hill. similar lee, congressman johnson. you are also a civil rights lawyer. what are you willing to do to ensure voting rights are protected for all of us. i am doing everything in my power to get these bills through the committee. and the most important thing is
end an august 7th. right now we are going to be here in the nation s capitol until august 7th. it is time for congress to pass federal legislation so many states like texas can stop with the voter suppression, jim crow 2.0 laws they are trying to perpetuate furthering the big lie from donald trump. now, texas is already one of the hardest states to vote in. the bill your republican counterparts are looking to force through would make it even worse. in its current form, the bill bans 24-hour voting and drive-through voting. it is make it harder to vote by mail. it empowers voter intimidation bipartisan poll watchers. is a federal solution the only way out on this? rev, it is the only way. this is the fierce urgency of now. the only way we are going 20 stop this is from federal legislation. we are approaching the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. it is pivotal that congress take
hill. there is growing pressure on the biden administration to push congress to get this done. to some, that means eliminating the filibuster. where do you come down on this, congresswoman? well, if the senate cannot get the votes, the senate needs to see voting rights as so crucial that the filibuster does not apply. i want to be clear, though, for your viewers. hr-1 passed the house. right. the house passed hr-1 early in the session. we are waiting on the senate. now, for hr-4, we are having hearings. as a matter of fact, we have had three hearings already in our subcommittee. i chaired up with of those meetings. and we are having another one on tuesday. the supreme court made it harder for us in their most recent arizona decision on section two. section 5, preclearance, that was shelby. section 2 is how you actually win a voting rights lawsuit.
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