On Wednesday, Madam Vice President welcomed 16 Texas State House and Senate Legislators to the White House and received them in the Roosevelt Room for a roundtable meeting.

The Lone-Star State Legislators who are all members of the State's Democrat Party worked out of the State legislature a few weeks back after they blocked a proposal to restrict voting in their state during a legislative session. This move narrowly prevented passage of the Senate Bill 7 in a majority-Republican legislature, a measure that would limit early voting hours, ban drive-through voting, make it easier to overturn an election and restrict mail-in ballots, among other things. 

"And so, I’m very pleased to welcome you — and for many of you, welcome you back — to the White House to have yet another very important conversation, and this time about one of the most important pillars of our democracy, which is about the fundamental right to vote."

Vice President Harris who has been tasked by the President to tackle the issue of voting rights, said this during the press remarks, "When we look at these attempts to infringe on people’s access to voting, we know that it is going to impact people — Americans with disabilities, seniors, students, people of every walk of life. "

Vice President Harris reiterated hers and President Joe Biden's "absolute commitment" to seeing Congress pass two bills -- the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, or HR 4, and the For The People Act, or HR/SR 1.

The Legislators who attended were:

• Rep. Gina Hinojosa of Austin
• Rep. Senfronia Thompson of Houston
• Sen. Carol Alvarado, Chair of the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus
• State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer of San Antonio
• Rep Jasmine Crockett of Dallas
• State Sen. Royce West of Dallas
• State Rep. Jessica González of Dallas
• Rep. Yvonne Davis of Dallas
• Rep. Rafael Anchía of Dallas
• Rep. Victoria Neave of Dallas,
• Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth, Chair of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus;
• Rep Trey Martinez Fischer of San Antonio, 
• Rep. Ron Reynolds of Missouri City; 
• Rep. Jarvis Johnson of Houston,
• Rep. Armando Walle of Houston,
• Rep Chris Turner of Grand Prairie, chairs of the House Democratic caucus.
• Sen Beverly Powell of Burleson, 
• Sen José Menéndez of San Antonio