The Texas House of Representatives reached a quorum on Monday after the Democrats returned to Austin that ended a two -week confrontation with the Republicans about the proposed Maps of Congress, which potentially clarified the way for Republicans to approve changes that could generate Republicans up to five new seats in the House of Representatives next year.
According to a preliminary and unofficial count of the call to the president of the House of Representatives, Dustin Burrows, published by the Texas Legislature on Monday afternoon, 120 members responded affirmatively for the role of role, including 32 Democrats, while another 30, all Democrats, appear as absent.
Later, the Chamber sent the new version of the bill that includes new Maps of Congress to the Chamber’s Redistribution Committee, a expected procedure movement that the Chamber must follow again because a new legislative session has begun. The camera did not take any vote and postponed until Wednesday.
Burrows said that civil arrest orders remain in force for democratic members who prevented the camera from reaching a quorum in recent weeks.
In an aerial opinion, the State Capitol is seen on August 14, 2025 in Austin, Texas.
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“The house has passed through two tumultuous weeks, but this institution is prior to us and for a long time will overlook each of us,” Burrows said. “The representatives come and go, the problems increase and the fall, but this body has supported wars, economic depressions and quorum breaks that date back to the first session. This will also resist this, and what will remain is a camera where most have the right to prevail, the minority has the right to be heard.”
The Democrats did not confirm any specific action that plan to take to the floor of the camera, but they say they will build a “legal case against the discriminatory map.” The new maps are expected to be affected by demands if they approve the legislature.
“We kill the corrupt special session, resist unprecedented surveillance and intimidation, and gather the Democrats throughout the country to join this existential struggle for fair representation, remodeling the entire 2026 panorama,” said the state representative of the Democratic Cáuco Gene Wu in a statement. “We will return to Texas more dangerous for the plans of the Republicans than when we left.”
At least one Democrat from the House of Representatives, state representative Aicha Davis, said in a statement on Monday that it would not be one of the Democrats that would help restore a quorum.
“I committed to my district that would fight until the end to maintain our intact representation and stay faithful to my word,” Davis said in a statement.
The Democratic state representative, Erin Zwiener, said at a press conference after the Chamber postponed that the Democrats are taking advantage of the experts in legal and vote rights, and from the floor, “we are going to build a record that helps the legal struggle to follow; we will try to persuade our [GOP] colleagues to do the right thing, but I am frankly disappointed at the level of moral courage that I see of many of my colleagues. And let’s talk about the real impact of these districts. “
When asked if there was any possibility that the Democrats leave the State again, Zwiener said that all the options remain on the table and that she would not discuss the strategy,
After the Texas State Legislature began a second special legislative session on Friday and still did not meet the quorum, the Republican legislators are expected to try a quorum on Monday and then work to advance in the new maps, which will have to pass once again the Redistribution Committee of Chamber Districts and the procedural votes.
Separately, in California, days after Governor Gavin Newsom formally announced plans so that the new Maps of the Congress go to the voters in November at a Texas counter, the state legislature will be convened on Monday from the break and is ready to quickly work on the approval of the legislation to obtain the maps in the vote. The Republicans and the defenders of the Anti-Gratriz plan to protest and call what they say is an unfair process.
Democratic governors in Illinois and New York have also threatened to respond to Texas in kind and a bill in the State Chamber controlled by Maryland’s Democrats would force the State to change their map if another state proposed a new map in the middle of the decade. According to reports, Florida and Missouri controlled by Republicans are also considering redistributing before half of the peoples.
The Trump administration has invited Indiana’s Republicans to the White House next week to learn from senior officials and secretaries of the cabinet how they can be associated with the administration to support Trump’s agenda, according to an invitation reviewed by ABC News. A source with knowledge of the event told ABC News that the redistribution of districts is expected to be discussed since the White House increases the pressure on the legislators of the state of Indiana to re -draw the districts of the congress before next year’s partial exams.
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Indiana earlier this month to discuss the redistribution of districts with legislators in the State Capitol.
Hannah Demissie of ABC News contributed to this report.
