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Democrats win battle over GOP voting bill, but can t win war without Joe Biden, Senate Dems

AUSTIN Texas Democrats won a battle in a war that they cannot win, unless they get help from President Joe Biden and their fellow party members in.

Democrats win battle over GOP voting bill, but can t win war without Joe Biden, Senate Dems | Nation/World

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Democrats won a battle in a war that they cannot win, unless they get help from President Joe Biden and their fellow party members in Washington. On Sunday Democrats trickled out of the House chambers to defeat a Senate-driven elections bill that they say discriminated against voters of color. The bill, which the Senate approved in the wee hours of Sunday morning without input from Democrats, would have set uniform early voting hours, further empower partisan poll watchers, and put new criminal penalties on voting officials and assistants who break the rules. It also would have banned 24-hour and drive-through voting, penalized election officials that send mail-in ballot applications to those who do not ask for them, and required some people who drive voters to the polls to hand over their personal information. The Senate proposal also mandated that early voting on Sunday begin at 1 p.m. instead of a 9 a.m. start time — a provision critics say was ai

Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President : Women Make History At Biden s Joint Address

Chip Somodevilla, Bloomberg via Getty Images In a historic first, President Biden was flanked by two women House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Harris as he addressed a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Apr 28, 2021 Rachel Treisman When a president addresses Congress flanked by the vice president and speaker of the House, it s tradition. But when both of those seats are filled by women, it s history in the making. Such was the case on Wednesday night, when President Biden delivered his first joint address to a scaled-back crowd of mask-wearing lawmakers. But the pandemic wasn t the only history-making factor. Behind him sat two women from California: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Harris, both the first women to hold their positions.

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