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Texas House Ordered to Be Arrested
The texas legislature was taken over by republicans. They were pushing a hardagenda that included harsh spending cuts and re districting. 58 of the democrats in office decided just to not show up to boycot the agenda. This is something they can do, so the house speaker has the authority to send the texas rangers out to find them and bring them in to vote. It's basically hide and seek. But with the government exactly two of the lawmakers decided to get out of the state in order to avoid being arrested. So the speaker requested help from other states to get them back into chamber. The democrats returned when the time had elapsed for the bill but it didn't