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Ted Cruz saved America at 3:30 AM on Wednesday morning (Old news but deserves a reprise)
Houston Chronicle ^ | August 11, 2021 | Benjamin Wermund

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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KEYWORDS: cruz; electionfraud; hr1; moreoldnews; senate
Schumer tried to get HR1 passed "by unanimous consent" at 3:30 AM. Only Cruz was on hand to prevent it.

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

1 posted on 08/20/2021 12:17:03 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Now arrest those democrats.


2 posted on 08/20/2021 12:23:42 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“One man with guts makes a majority”

- Andrew Jackson


3 posted on 08/20/2021 1:40:08 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The democrat party is an organized crime family and the enemy of freedom.


4 posted on 08/20/2021 3:34:58 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Beware! It may still not be safe to speak highly of Ted Cruz on Free Republic.


5 posted on 08/20/2021 3:46:20 AM PDT by golux
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

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”.


6 posted on 08/20/2021 4:02:55 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
We owe a huge debt to Ted Cruz. May he be well rewarded.

Communist Chuck Schumer deserves to be thrown out of the country.

7 posted on 08/20/2021 4:52:10 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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