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This week I’m keeping my eye on a few key issues:
- In Arkansas, the Republican-run legislature passed the GOP's new congressional map,
- Republicans in the Iowa Senate on Tuesday voted down congressional and legislative maps proposed by the state's nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency over the objections of Democrats.
- Also at the national level, on Thursday, Senate Democrats introduced their own version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (designated S. 4), which follows House Democrats passing their version of the bill in August (designated H.R. 4).
- A $480 billion increase in the country’s borrowing ceiling cleared the Senate last week on a party-line vote after McConnel agreed Republicans would not filibuster a short term increase.
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