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Elex-reform battle looms

Steven Nelson

A Senate Rules Committee hearing is expected to get heated Tuesday during debate on a federal election-reform bill that Republicans call a would-be “power grab.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tweeted Monday evening that he will put up a fight against the bill, HR 1, which passed the House in a party-line vote.

“Democrats’ partisan power-grab ‘election reform’ bill is not about voting rights. It’s about letting Washington Democrats control the terms of political debate and all 50 states’ election laws,” he wrote. “Republicans will expose this attempted D.C. takeover in tomorrow’s hearing.”

Democrats say the bill is needed to override newly passed election laws in red states .

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