There are 150 members of the Texas House, but 100 — a quorum — are needed to conduct business. The House Democratic Caucus ...

Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to remove the lawmakers, saying they were not meeting their constitutional duties.

Democratic statehouse legislators are planning to leave Texas on Sunday in order to break the quorum of a special legislative session in which Republican state legislators are aiming to pass a new ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker welcomed the plane load of Texas Democrats, who left in a last-ditch effort to disrupt a Republican ...