{"id":618791,"date":"2021-08-07T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=618791"},"modified":"2021-08-07T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:06:55","slug":"texas-democrats-plan-to-stay-in-d-c-amid-second-special-legislative-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-democrats-plan-to-stay-in-d-c-amid-second-special-legislative-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats plan to stay in D.C. amid second special legislative session"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-democrats-plan-to-stay-in-d-c-amid-second-special-legislative-session%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=618791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2485221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2485221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Marc Veasey ( D-Texas), center left, and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), joined at left by Rep. Chris Turner, chairman of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, welcome Democratic members of the Texas legislature at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:55 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, August 7, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Texas Democrats have made plans to stay in Washington D.C. after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) called for a second special session to pass a state election integrity bill. In D.C. on Friday, Democrats stood together in protest against the GOP efforts to create safe and secure elections.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Rep. Chris Turner (D) went on to say, \u201cwe will never stop fighting Texas Republicans\u2019 continued efforts to roll back Texans\u2019 freedom to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On the 56th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VotingRightsAct?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VotingRightsAct<\/a>, Greg Abbott&#8217;s suppression session comes to a close. <\/p>\n<p>With the second special legislative session looming, Texas Democrats remain fervently committed to protecting the freedom to vote. <\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K8sZvwN9TG\">https:\/\/t.co\/K8sZvwN9TG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Texas Democrats (@texasdemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/texasdemocrats\/status\/1423691471954325511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, Democrats pressured the Biden administration to pass federal legislation that would override the Republican bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur resolve and hard work across these past few weeks have resulted in clear action and clear progress here on Capitol Hill to accelerate that legislation,\u201d Turner stated. \u201cWe are closer, much closer than we were a few weeks ago, to passing the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Abbott made it clear he would continue calling for special sessions until the Texas Democrats return to their responsibilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m convening a second special session on 8\/7. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/txlege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#txlege<\/a> must finish the work that was started.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll call special session after special session to reform our broken bail system, uphold election integrity, &amp; pass other items Texans demand &amp; deserve. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EXoHBR0JTg\">https:\/\/t.co\/EXoHBR0JTg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1423337090272608262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-cruz-1-2t-infrastructure-bill-a-trap\/\">Sen Cruz: $1.2T Infrastructure Bill A Trap<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marc Veasey ( D-Texas), center left, and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), joined at left by Rep. Chris Turner, chairman of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, welcome Democratic members of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}