Posted on 08/20/2021 12:17:03 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz blocked Senate Democrats’ attempts to pass voting rights legislation overnight, delivering a blow to Texas Democrats who had remained in D.C. to press the Senate to vote on the bills before leaving Washington for summer recess.
In a back-and-forth with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the Senate floor around 3:30 a.m., the Texas Republican objected repeatedly as the New York Democrat sought consent for the Senate to consider a series of voting bills. Cruz denounced the legislation as “a federal government takeover of elections” and a “massive power grab by Democrats.”
The roughly 15-minute exchange effectively killed a weeks-long effort by Texas Democrats to force a vote on the bills, though Schumer vowed that voting rights would be the party’s top priority when the Senate returns in September.
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One man stood in the way of Slimy Schumer's driving the final nail in the coffin of our liberties.
Saint-hood isn't good enough for him
Now arrest those democrats.
“One man with guts makes a majority”
- Andrew Jackson
The democrat party is an organized crime family and the enemy of freedom.
Beware! It may still not be safe to speak highly of Ted Cruz on Free Republic.
The Republicans were working in shifts to keep one on the Senate floor at all times to prevent this. Schumer decided to pick Cruz’s time to try to sneak this through and make him the Democrats’ “bad guy”.
Communist Chuck Schumer deserves to be thrown out of the country.
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