By James Oliphant

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas Republicans tried on Monday to pressure Democrats to return to the state legislature after their absence again prevented a vote on a redistricting plan favored by President Donald Trump that seeks to add Republican seats in Congress.

After House Speaker Dustin Burrows declared there were too few members to conduct business, he said Republicans would move up to Tuesday voting on bills for measures related to floods that killed at least 137 people last month, a bid to persuade Democrats to return.

“The question is simple,” Burrows said. “Will you be in that chair to vote for these critical disaster-recovery bills, or will you be remembered as the one who did not show up?”

Democratic legislators in the Texas House of Representatives fled this

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