We do need a national standard that actually empowers people to vote, and that`s what S-1 is trying to accomplish, and I think that it was very instructive for the staff to understand in other parts of the country, there is a lot of voter suppression taking place and clearly that`s killing democracy, and we need a fix for that.
Fischer discusses the need for a national voting standard to combat voter suppression.
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Texans are fed up. ... That is not going to deter us. That is only going to make us stronger. That is only going to give us more resolve. And we will continue to fight.
If Trump is going to throw out the rule book, then we will fight fire with fire.
The only way to solve this problem, senators, the only way to solve this problem is for the United States Senate to pass something like the For the People Act, to back stop voting rights at the federal level.
If they steamroll us here in Texas, they’re just going to march all across this country until they have made it very hard for everyone to vote.
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