Texas Democrats call on Congress to help fight voting restrictions
Benjamin Wermund , Taylor Goldenstein , Houston Chronicle | Published on 6/2/2021
WASHINGTON — As Texas Democrats drew national attention over the weekend, dramatically killing a massive package of election measures that would have reduced access to the polls, they said they wanted to make a larger point about what they view as Republican efforts to suppress the minority vote.
“We knew today, with the eyes of the nation watching action in Austin, that we needed to send a message,” state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, said at a news conference just after House Democrats staged a walkout in the legislative session’s final hours Sunday. “And that message is very, very clear: Mr. President, we need a national response to federal voting rights.”
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