Texas Senate set to vote on GOP redistricting plan that sparked weeks

The Texas Senate is debating the controversial GOP redistricting bill that triggered a weeks-long House standoff.

The Republican-backed proposal, which passed the House in an 88-52 party-line vote on Wednesday, aims to redraw the state's congressional map and produce five new GOP-leaning districts.

The Texas Senate Committee on Redistricting advanced the bill Thursday along party lines.

It's unclear whether the Democrats in the Texas Senate will try to delay the vote by breaking quorum themselves. When a similar redistricting bill passed the Senate during the first special session, all but two Democrats walked out of the chamber in protest. If all 11 Democrats are absent, Republicans would be one senator shy of a quorum.

Once approved by the Republican majority in the