As a way of ratcheting up the pressure on Texas Democrat representatives to return to the state to attend legislative sessions, Texas GOP state Rep. Briscoe Cain told Newsmax on Wednesday that he has filed a bill which would vacate the seats of any representative who skips seven straight legislative days without an excused absence.
This comes as 51 Democrat lawmakers have fled the state to prevent the Texas House of Representatives from carrying out a redrawing of congressional districts to be more favorable for Republicans, since state law requires a quorum of two-thirds of the representatives to be present in order to have a legislative session.
Cain, who is chair of the Texas House Freedom Caucus, told “Wake Up America” that Democrats claim their absence “is about protecting democracy all while they are really subverting it to cling to power.”
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