Texas House speaker charters flight for Democrats to return to state
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Texas' Republican House Speaker announced that he plans to charter a plane that will be on "standby" in Washington, D.C. waiting to bring home Democratic lawmakers that fled the state to avoid voting on an election integrity bill.
Earlier this week, a group of Democratic lawmakers fled Austin, Texas and flew to the nation’s capital instead of participating in a quorum vote on a bill proposed by Republicans that would strengthen voter ID requirements for mail-in ballots and ban drive-thru and overnight early voting. "Texas Democrats’ decision to break a quorum of the Texas Legislature and abandon the Texas State Capitol inflicts harm on the very Texans who elected them to serve," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in a statement at the time. "As they fly across the country on cushy private planes, they leave undone issues that can help their districts and our state.More Related News