The Texas House on Wednesday approved a new plan to redraw the state’s congressional district lines in a party-line vote over opposition from Democrats who had delayed the proceeding for weeks by fleeing the state.
The map, which alters the lines of 37 of the state’s 38 districts, adds enough Republican voters to five U.S. House districts to give Republicans a chance to add to their narrow majority in Washington. The GOP currently controls 25 of Texas’s 38 U.S. House districts under a map approved in 2021.
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