Some Texas Democratic Party members, who have been away for over six weeks, have come back to the House of Representatives. This means there are enough Democratic representatives in the lower house of Texas’s Legislature to arrive at a quorum. As for the Texas Tribune’s James Barragán, Democratic Party members have been disagreeing on whether to come back and when they should do it.
Over 50 legislators left Austin City for Washington to deny the House of Representatives a quorum, thereby stopping contemplation of a GOP-supported voting bill. Ana Hernandez, Garnet Coleman and Armando Walle from Houston are the Democrats who came back the previous week. Barragán stated that there was an electoral roll to determine which representatives were in attendance, and those Democrats achieved a quorum.
Democratic Party members are in disagreement about coming back to the Texas House. Some Democrats think that they have put across a convincing proposition in opposing a draft law, which they feel is excessively restrictive of state voters. Other legislators question the recent decision to go away from the House.
Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbot blocked the face mask mandate that regional districts passed for schools, but the Supreme Court allowed it to be in place. About this development, Barragán stated that Governor Abbot would end up fighting two oppositions to his move. Several local governments and school districts oppose the decision of Abbot to block their mandates. In the areas of those local administrations and districts, officials are bothered about the transmission of coronavirus’s Delta strain. The federal administration is backing the districts that wish to have the ordinances in place.
