Legislators draw partisan lines over voting rights and filibuster
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., seen here at a Republican policy luncheon, voted ahainst the Biden administration’s set of federal changes to state election rules along with fellow Republican U.S. senator Bill Hagerty. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta file)
The two key votes of the week in Washington D.C. were in the Senate. But the discussion among the city’s representatives in Washington included both U.S. House members who represent Memphis.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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