The bill is a maneuver by Democrats in which the House repackaged and passed the two elections-related bills as one, sending it to the Senate under a special procedure preventing Republicans from blocking debate.
The bill was approved along party lines and will now move to the Senate.
(Reporting by Moira Warburton and Kanishka Singh; Editing by Scott Malone and Jonathan Oatis)
By Moira Warburton