For the first time in 20 years, the Senate Rules Committee held a field hearing on Monday, this time in Atlanta to discuss voting rights as Democrats push for federal reform in the wake of sweeping legislation.
The DOJ is specifically challenging reduced access to absentee voting, arguing that will make Black voters have to wait in line longer than white voters.
"This silly stunt is based on the same lie as all the Democrats’ phony hysteria from Georgia to Texas to Washington D.C. and beyond -- their efforts to pretend that moderate, mainstream state voting laws with more generous early voting provisions than blue states like New York are some kind of evil assault on our democracy," the GOP leader said.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters following the weekly Senate lunch at the Capitol, July 13, 2021.
"Today's hearing is just the latest attempt by the Democrats to ignore the catastrophe up in Washington, DC and also to really change the narrative that couldn't get the federal takeover of elections in S1 [the For the People Act voting rights bill] passed through the Senate or the Congress," Kemp said.
Both chambers of Congress were back in session Monday as Democrats in the Texas State Legislature took harbor in the capital for a second week in order to prevent Republicans in Austin from taking up the proposals in a special legislative session. While they had planned to push voting rights legislation on the hill, five members have tested positive for COVID-19.
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