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The Texas Legislature sent a sweeping Republican-backed election bill to Governor Greg Abbott s desk on Tuesday, ending a months-long standoff with Democrats, who tried to defeat the effort in two separate walkouts.The Texas House passed the bill, SB 1, 80-41 last week and on Tuesday, the Texas Senate passed it 18-13. The votes were nearly along party lines. Abbott has said that he looks forward to signing the bill. Senate Bill 1 will solidify trust and confidence in the outcome of our elections by making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. I look forward to signing Senate Bill 1 into law, ensuring election integrity in Texas, Abbott said in a statement. Republicans have argued that the bill is designed to clamp down on any fraud in elections and shore up voter confidence. How stanley tumbler much fraud is okay None. How much suppression is okay None, said Republican state Senator Bryan Hughes. That s why Senate Bill 1 makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat. Democrats, who have fiercely opposed the Republican-backed election proposals, have alleged the bill may make it harder for minority or disabled voters to cast ballots and are predicate stanley cup d on the false premise of widespread voter fraud. House Democrats broke quorum for 38 days this summer to stop the legislature from passing the election bill. The Texas State Capitol is seen in Austin on Tuesday, June 1 stanley water bottle , 2021. Eric Ga Ylqd Obama And The Gay Community
President Obama. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak As President Obama gears up to deliver a major jobs speech before Congress on Thursday, a handful of new polls give the president some of his most dismal approval ratings to date - adding renewed pressure for the White House to drive home a message on jobs and the economy that reso stanley quencher nates with the American people.According to two new surveys by ABC News/Washington Post and NBC/Wall Street Journal, Mr. Obama s approval ratings are at a record low in his presidency, at just 43 percent and 44 percent respectively. And a POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll released Monday night found that just 45 percent of voters approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president. Moreover, the president has scored particularly low marks across the board when it comes to his leadership on economic issues: 62 percent of those surveyed in the ABC/Washington Post poll said they disapproved of how Mr. Obama was handling the economy; 59 percent of those surveyed in the Politico/GWU battleground poll said the same, and according to the NBC/WSJ poll, approval of his economic stewardship is at a low of 37 percent. The surveys come on stanley mug the heels of last week s kubki stanley bleak jobs report, which indicated that no new jobs were added in August and that the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.1 percent.Meanwhile, Congress re
The Texas Legislature sent a sweeping Republican-backed election bill to Governor Greg Abbott s desk on Tuesday, ending a months-long standoff with Democrats, who tried to defeat the effort in two separate walkouts.The Texas House passed the bill, SB 1, 80-41 last week and on Tuesday, the Texas Senate passed it 18-13. The votes were nearly along party lines. Abbott has said that he looks forward to signing the bill. Senate Bill 1 will solidify trust and confidence in the outcome of our elections by making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. I look forward to signing Senate Bill 1 into law, ensuring election integrity in Texas, Abbott said in a statement. Republicans have argued that the bill is designed to clamp down on any fraud in elections and shore up voter confidence. How stanley tumbler much fraud is okay None. How much suppression is okay None, said Republican state Senator Bryan Hughes. That s why Senate Bill 1 makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat. Democrats, who have fiercely opposed the Republican-backed election proposals, have alleged the bill may make it harder for minority or disabled voters to cast ballots and are predicate stanley cup d on the false premise of widespread voter fraud. House Democrats broke quorum for 38 days this summer to stop the legislature from passing the election bill. The Texas State Capitol is seen in Austin on Tuesday, June 1 stanley water bottle , 2021. Eric Ga Ylqd Obama And The Gay Community
President Obama. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak As President Obama gears up to deliver a major jobs speech before Congress on Thursday, a handful of new polls give the president some of his most dismal approval ratings to date - adding renewed pressure for the White House to drive home a message on jobs and the economy that reso stanley quencher nates with the American people.According to two new surveys by ABC News/Washington Post and NBC/Wall Street Journal, Mr. Obama s approval ratings are at a record low in his presidency, at just 43 percent and 44 percent respectively. And a POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll released Monday night found that just 45 percent of voters approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president. Moreover, the president has scored particularly low marks across the board when it comes to his leadership on economic issues: 62 percent of those surveyed in the ABC/Washington Post poll said they disapproved of how Mr. Obama was handling the economy; 59 percent of those surveyed in the Politico/GWU battleground poll said the same, and according to the NBC/WSJ poll, approval of his economic stewardship is at a low of 37 percent. The surveys come on stanley mug the heels of last week s kubki stanley bleak jobs report, which indicated that no new jobs were added in August and that the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.1 percent.Meanwhile, Congress re