Members of Texas House Democratic Caucus are now discussing when they will return to Texas. He said that he considers it a success that he has killed a special session and A. Efforts in the House to pass maps of new Congress This will give Republican five new majority seats.
after Failed to reach quorum For the fifth time in more than a week on Tuesday morning, Republican leaders announced that if they could not reach a quorum again at 10 am on Friday, both August, House and Senate will wrap both special sessions.
At the same time, Governor Greg Abbott stated that the second special session would begin with the same agenda or possibly an extended one.
Senate Democrats exit in solidarity
The Democrats broke the quorum and left the state 3 August and flew to Illinois. Some Democrats traveled to New York, Massachusetts and California.
In an attempt to show solidarity, nine out of 11 Democrats in the Texas Senate went out of their session on Tuesday, as the Senate was going to vote on the new Congress map.
The Democrats wanted to vote on the flood relief law before redistribution, but were rejected, and they left. Because two Democrats remained in the Senate Chamber, they maintained quorum, and the Senate approved the new Congress map from 19 to 2 to 2 to 2. Democrats and Republican should be convicted for Congress seats.
Republican shares disappointment on the action of Democrats
Representative Jredday Patterson, R-Fisco, destroyed the House Democrats and said that it is a Democratic state that has geramed its Congress seats.
Patterson said, “What is doing on Texas redistribution, this is a reaction that is going on in these other states. Therefore, we have to make for Germandering in these other states with strong Republican representation in Texas. This is the majority Republican state,” said Patterson.
But Senator Nathan Johnson, D-Dalas dismissed it.
“Nationwide, every state Germanders, but the Democrats do not do it in the mid -decade. Democrats, when we were under the control of the White House, did not ask the Democratic states to re -prepare their maps, so that they could face the wrath of voters for failed policies and bad leadership.”
In a statement on Tuesday morning, Gov Abbott said“There will be no rebuke for the Democrats who escaped from the state and gave up their duty for the people selected.”
Jean Wu, president of Houston’s Texas House Democratic Cocks, sent a statement on Tuesday afternoon: “We said that we will defeat the first corrupt special session of Abbott, and exactly we are doing it. Now, the ball is in the court of Abbut: He can stop stopping the relief from the flood immediately. Can stop stopping political games.”
Speaker Dustin Baroz said on Tuesday that Texas DPS agents racked over $ 100,000 in overtime expenses as they have continued searching across the state to find the missing house democrats. Baroz said that he would send a bill to Democrats who broke the quorum.
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