‘You don’t have to die’: Biden urges Americans to get vaccinated and calls for incentives – as it happened
by Maanvi Singh, Joan E Greve and Lauren Aratani from US news | The Guardian on (#5MQQN)
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Jackson Lee's arrest came after a House oversight subcommittee hearing in which Texas Democrats who traveled to DC in order to detail voting restrictions in their state explained how the voting restrictions would disenfranchise Black and minority voters.
The Democrats had walked out to deny Republicans the two-thirds quorum required to carry out their plan to pass measures that would impose id-requirements on mail-in ballots and ban 24-hour and drive-through voting among other restrictions.
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