The Committee to Re -divide the turns in the House of Representatives in Texas voted from Monday evening a new copy of a draft law with the proposed new Congress maps after it looked at a copy with some changes from the proposed maps originally.
This puts the bill that will be considered in the house hall, after schedule the Calendar Committee in the House of Representatives, which means that the new maps are scheduled to continue moving forward.
Texas’s house arrived in the quorum earlier on Monday after the Democrats returned to Austin to a two -week confrontation with Republicans on the proposed Congress maps, which could wipe the road to Republicans to agree to the changes that could develop the Republicans up to five new seats in the House of Representatives next year.
The House of Representatives later referred to the new issue of the draft law, which includes new maps of Congress to the Committee to Re -Divide the Circles, a procedural step that the House of Representatives must follow again because it started a new legislative session. The House of Representatives did not get any votes and was postponed until Wednesday.
President Donald Trump prompted Republicans in Texas to re -draw their maps in Congress, and the governor of the state, Greg Abbott, called on a special session to take over the division of circles and other issues. On Monday, the president urged the legislators to pass the new maps “as soon as possible!”
“It is one of the most popular initiatives that I have ever supported. Republicans love to watch us fight for a great issue. Please pass this map, as soon as possible,” Trump wrote in a post on the social media platform.
Buroz said that civil detention orders are still valid for democratic members who have prevented the House of Representatives from reaching the quorum in the past few weeks.
In an air view, government cabetol is seen on August 14, 2025 in Austin, Texas.
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“The house has passed two weeks turbulent, but this institution has long before us and each of us has long been out.” “The actors come and go, and the issues and the fall increased, but this body endured wars, economic depression, and the quorum breaks that date back to the first session. It will stand up to this as well, and what will remain is a room in which the majority is the right to victory, and the minority has the right to hear it.”
Representative Nicole Koller, one of the democratic members who left the state to break the quorum and prevent voting on the proposed maps, was stuck in the state as of Monday night because it refused to agree to accompanying law enforcement, according to a statement issued by Tokasos.
The burrows put strict conditions for the members who broke the quorum and returned.
On Monday morning, he said that “Call of the House”, which aims to help secure the legal quorum by locking the convincing doors and members to return, is still in effect. Buroz said that members of the House of Representatives who have civil arrest are not allowed to deny the quorum to leave the house unless they obtained written permission and agreed to put them in the reservation of the law enforcement employee who will ensure their return on Wednesday.
Coller wrote in a statement that she refused to agree to this condition and follow her to enforce law.
“I refuse to sign my dignity as an elected representative, according to the origins, so that the Republicans can control my movements and observers with the police companions. My community is the majority, and they expect me to stand to represent them.”
Democrats say they will build a “legal issue against the discriminatory map.” The new maps are widely expected by lawsuits if they pass the legislature.
“We have killed the corrupt private session, carrying unprecedented monitoring and intimidation, and the Democrats gathered at the country level to join this existential battle for fair representation – the reshaping of the entire 2026 scene,” Democratic President Jane Woo said in a statement. “We return to Texas more dangerous to the plans of the Republicans more than we left.”
Davis, deputy, MP, Aisha Davis, said in a statement on Monday that she will not be one of the Democrats who will help restore the quorum.
“I adhered to my area that I will fight to the end to maintain our representation intact and remain honest with my words,” Davis said in a statement.
The Democratic Representative, Erine Zoyener, said at a press conference after the House of Representatives was postponed that the Democrats click on legal voting rights experts, and from the floor, “We will build a record that helps the legal battle to move forward; we will try to persuade us [GOP] Fellows do the right thing, but frankly I am disappointed in the level of moral courage that I see from many of my colleagues. We will talk about the true impact of these areas. “
In response to a question about whether there is any opportunity that the Democrats leave for the state again, Zwiner said that all options remain on the table and that it will not discuss the strategy,
After the Legislative Board of Texas began a second special legislative session on Friday and failed to fulfill the censcent, it is expected that Republican lawmakers will try to try a quorum on Monday and then work to strengthen new maps, which will have to pass again on the Committee to Re -divide the House of Representatives and procedural voices.
Separately, legislators in the Democratic states in California officially revealed their proposed legislation to obtain new congressional maps in the ballot in November, saying it will be anti -Texas if it moved forward with its new proposed maps in Congress. Legionships did not enter the details of the map or precisely fixing the legislation, but they said that it would be a constitutional amendment that would include maps, as well as emphasizing the committee to re -divide independent circles in the state that does not lead to new maps only if other states advance while giving the middle of the contract.
But Republican lawmakers said that this step, which was prompted by the governor of the state, Gavin New Tiroum, is not only public partisan, but may threaten democracy in California. In their conversation with the journalists in the government building, they said that the proposed legislation spoils the will of the voters in California. They also said they were criticizing the efforts to redraw Texas and wanted to re -divide the circles at the national level.
Senator Tony Strickland told reporters.
Democrats in Illinois and New York also threatened to respond to Texas at all and a draft law in the State Council controlled by Democrats in Maryland, the state will force the state to change its map if another country proposes a new map in the middle of the decade. According to what was also taught Florida and Missouri, Republican controllers are to re -divide the circles before mid -time.
The Trump administration has invited the Republican in Indiana to the White House next week to hear from senior officials and cabinet secretaries how they could partnership with the administration to support the Trump agenda, according to an invitation reviewed by ABC News. A source with the science of the event told ABC News that it is expected that the re -division of circles will be discussed while the pressure on legislators in Indiana to re -draw the Congress areas before the middle of next year.
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Indiana earlier this month to discuss the re -division of circles with legislators in the Capitol building.
ABC News’ Hannah Demissie contributed to this report.