To conduct official business, at least 100 members of the 150-member Texas House must be present. Democrats hold 62 of the ...

Democrats in the Texas House have fled in an attempt to prevent a vote Monday on Trump-backed maps designed to add GOP seats ...

Earlier on Sunday, more than 51 Texas Democratic lawmakers flew to Chicago in order to break quorum, all but derailing a vote ...

Dozens of Texas Democrats were headed to Illinois on Sunday.They left the Lone Star State in a last-ditch effort to disrupt a ...

Texas House Democrats say they traveled to Chicago to avoid further movement in the state's redistricting process.

State lawmakers left en masse in a bid to block a GOP map that would tilt the playing field in Republicans’ favor.

Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) urged his party to "fight back" on Sunday as Democratic legislators left the Lone Star ...

Texas Democrats are fleeing the state to block a redistricting vote that could give Republicans five new U.S. House seats in ...

Jim Dunnam led the 2003 quorum break that stalled redistricting once before. Now he’s watching a new generation of Democrats ...

The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map ...

Texas Democrats have fled the state in an effort to keep Republicans from approving a new U.S. House map that could boost ...