Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. After a busy weekend voting on the reconciliation bill, the Senate is now in recess through Labor Day. The House, in recess.
are vaccinated but you still get infected. we have to come together. the idea of calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated leads to the mandates, the super imposition of big government. i don t think it works. harris: thanks for being with me to break down the breaking news and more today. always good to have you in focus. great to be with you, harris. harris: president biden and vice president kamala harris are headed to atlanta, georgia today in a push to pass democrats voting rights legislation which would federalize elections taking power away from the states. georgia at the forefront of election integrity of voter fraud battles and now set to be the stage for the president s aim at an elections overhaul. some notable no-shows for today s event. voting rights leaders planning to skip the spectacle in protest of what they say is administration inaction. this is an interesting twist. georgia s democrat governor candidate stacey abrams will
to see senator manchin agree to do this, i think we may van agreement the senate can move forward on. as the new york times frames it the growing support for manchin s proposal reflects a, quote, significant goal for democrats. uniting the party around what it has billed as its highest priority and showing were it not for republican opposition and the filibuster the elections overhaul would become law. would become law. remember when i said i heard the faint sound of hope? here s why it s so faint. republicans, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell made it clear he ll denounce any legislation that protects or bolsters the right to vote when he condemned the manchin plan as being rotten. the times explains, quote, though some republicans had previously expressed willingness to talk to mr. manchin about a potential elections compromise it seems impossible to imagine a few let alone ten of them siding with democrats on a measure that
Texas legislators are gearing up for a titanic battle over a Republican effort to overhaul voting procedures after Democrats conspired to block its passage late Sunday night.
The omnibus legislative package came to a screeching halt after Democrats quietly abandoned the floor of the state House, denying Republicans the quorum they needed to pass the bill in the session’s waning hours.
In an echo of a previous exodus 18 years ago, when state House members fled across state lines to Oklahoma to delay a redistricting plan led by then-U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R), Democrats managed to exit the legislature on Sunday without attracting Republican attention.