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To Texas now, where Republican efforts to pass more voting restrictions remain at a standstill. Last week, a group of Democrats from the Texas House fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum. They re here in D.C., and while they re here, they have been waging an uphill battle to get Congress to pass federal voter protections. Ashley Lopez of member station KUT in Austin reports.
ASHLEY LOPEZ, BYLINE: Gina Hinojosa is a state representative from Austin. She s one of the more than 50 lawmakers from Texas who have been holed up in a hotel in Washington for the past week. Hinojosa says there s a lot about this situation she didn t see coming. For one, she has school-age children, and she promised them she d be around this summer.
Texas Democrats defy calls for their arrest in voting restrictions fight
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, vowed to arrest more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who left the state on Monday, denying the state House of Representatives the quorum required to approve the voting limits and other measures on his special session agenda.
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Representative Chris Turner, chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, joins with other Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives, who are boycotting a special session of the legislature in an effort to block Republican-backed voting restrictions, as they speak in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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State politicians flee Texas to derail legislation on voting restrictions, abortion access
Dozens of Democratic politicians leave the state as part of an orchestrated move to derail Republican efforts to pass legislation during a special session. 13 July 2021
Dozens of Democratic politicians have left Texas as part of an orchestrated move to derail Republican efforts to pass new voting restrictions and other measures.
Speaking from an airplane headed to Washington, DC, on Monday afternoon local time, Texas state Representative Alex Dominguez told Reuters that nearly everyone in the House of Representatives 67-member Democratic caucus had fled the state.
The exodus is intended to deny the legislature the quorum needed to approve any of the measures on Republican Governor Greg Abbott s special-session agenda, including bills restricting abortion access and blocking transgender students from competing in athletics events that correspond with their gender identity.