DALLAS — More than 50 Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives, including some from North Texas, left the state to break quorum in the chamber and delay a Monday vote in Republicans' efforts to approve new congressional maps .

The Texas House Democratic Caucus said some of its members went to Illinois, while others went to New York and Massachusetts.

Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu, D-Houston, in a statement called the Republican efforts to redraw maps a "corrupt political deal."

"This is not a decision we make lightly, but it is one we make with absolute moral clarity,” Wu said of the lawmakers' decision to leave the state. “Governor Abbott has turned the victims of a historic tragedy into political hostages in his submission to Donald Trump. He is usin

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