Food, healthcare, and emergency alerts – NM Dems focused & delivered during a 2 day special session to reinforce New Mexicans impacted by the Trump/Republican Budget passed over the summer
Our team has the full recap: https://progressnownm.org/new-mexicos-special-session-a-victory-for-families-and-communities/
Redistricting Committee selects congressional map for consideration by Utah lawmakers
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Legislative Redistricting Committee tasked with selecting a new map for lawmakers to…
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HB 18 would ban lawmakers from raising funds while participating in a quorum break. The measure is in response to the Democratic quorum break that unsuccessfully sought to prevent Republican-sponsored congressional redistricting legislation.
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A Texas House panel on Thursday advanced a proposal to scrap STAAR, the end-of-the-year state standardized test, but not without some Democrats lamenting the changes the lower chamber made to reach an agreement with the Senate.
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After the Texas House passed a new GOP congressional map, Gov. Greg Abbott added three new items to his agenda for the ongoing special session, including punishments for lawmakers who leave the state to block passage of future legislation.
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The congressional redistricting map now advancing through the Texas House would add Liberty County to TX-9, unlike the map under consideration in the Senate. The district has long been represented by Democratic U.S. Rep. Al Green.
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A Fort Worth lawmaker said on Monday that she can't leave the Texas House chambers because she won't agree to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers, which the GOP speaker is requiring of Democrats who fled the state.
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Some survivors of the Kerr County Flood said they feel like political pawns – caught in the middle of lawmakers’ games – while they desperately need relief.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released his second special session proclamation moments after the state legislature officially called its first special session to a close. The governor told lawmakers to begin work Friday afternoon.
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In a Houston neighborhood near the city’s port, residents worry their problems — and their votes — will be unheard if Texas state lawmakers go ahead with a mid-decade congressional redistricting plan.
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Texas House Democrats seem set on remaining out of state as long as it takes to block a new Republican-backed congressional map. What does that mean for business at the Capitol?
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Texas Republicans will again try to convene the state Legislature for a vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party's favor, an effort that already sparked a national political brawl and prompted Democratic lawmakers to leave the state.
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A growing quorum break in the Texas Legislature is halting progress in both chambers, delaying all legislative activity as House members remain absent.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that he will seek a court ruling declaring that state House Democrats who broke quorum and left the state have “abandoned their offices,” potentially allowing Gov. Greg Abbott to appoint their replacements.
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A bill that would dramatically redraw Texas’ congressional maps has advanced in the GOP-led House of Representatives, increasing the chances that Democrats will break quorum to deny Republicans the minimum number of legislators needed for the House to function.
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The proposed map targets districts dominated by coalitions of Latino and Black voters, with a focus on districts in the Rio Grande Valley, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Central Texas. Houston Democrats would also see their districts shuffled.
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The clock is ticking down on the Texas special legislative session with one week down and about three to go.
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The University of Houston hosted a hearing of the Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting on Saturday. Almost all of the candidates running for TX-18, vacant since Rep. Sylvester Turner's death in March, urged the committee not to redraw the boundaries.
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Texas state representatives will convene at the University of Houston Saturday to hear public comments on plans to redraw congressional maps mid-decade.
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