Friday, August 6, 2021

Fleeing House Democrats Plot Next Moves As Second Special Session To Begin

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With a Saturday start date set for a second special legislative session, Texas House Democrats who have camped out in the nation’s capital for more than three weeks to stymie a GOP voting bill said they are still mulling their next move.

State Rep. Chris Turner, the Grand Prairie Democrat who leads the party’s caucus in the House, indicated Thursday evening there was no immediate plan yet for the group of Democrats who have denied Republicans the quorum needed to pass the elections bill and several other GOP priorities in a first special session that ends Friday.

(Full story here.)
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