Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced he would charter a plane to fly the absent Democrats from the nation’s capital back to Austin. Texas Democrats say they have no intention of taking up Phelan on the request.
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"I am demanding all of our colleagues in D.C. to contact my staff immediately in order to secure their seat on the plane and return to Austin in order to do the state’s business. The State of Texas is waiting," Phelan said in a statement.MORE: Texas Democrats meet with Manchin on voting rights A group of Democrats fled Texas on Monday to break quorum and wait out the end of their ongoing special legislative session in an effort to block the advancement of dual Republican-backed bills that would revise the state’s voting and election laws. Voting rights advocates say, if enacted, those bills would make it harder for Texans to have ballot access. By breaking quorum, the legislators also stalled the advancement of a slate of other bills the state’s Republican Gov.
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