{"id":37602,"date":"2021-07-13T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37602"},"modified":"2021-07-13T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:11:45","slug":"acknowledging-few-options-at-home-texas-democrats-urge-congressional-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37602","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledging few options at home, Texas Democrats urge congressional action"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Texas House Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C., this week to block a GOP measure overhauling state election procedures urged Congress to pass sweeping new voting rights legislation, an acknowledgement that their high-profile stunt is unlikely to ultimately stop Republicans in their home state from enacting voting restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 state House members boarded private planes Monday to\u00a0abscond to the nation\u2019s capital\u00a0in an effort to deny the Republican majority the quorum necessary to advance the voting rights overhaul and other items on the agenda in a special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott (R).<\/p>\n<p>By traveling across state lines, the Democrats also escape the reach of Texas Rangers who have been\u00a0sent to track them down\u00a0and return them to Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have fought too long and too hard in this country,\u201d state Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D) told reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019m going to make sure I do everything I can to make sure my constituents\u2019 rights are not stripped from them.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas House Democrats who fled to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37603,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602\/revisions\/37603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}