Thanks!
Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
So still 4 seats short of quarum?
The quorum is 2/3. When there were two vacancies the quorum was 99 (and that was what was reached in the second called session). Oddly, one Democrat resigned to take a position at a community college. The other was Jake Ellzey who was elected in a special election to Congress.
One vacancy was filled this week. The other was almost picked up by a Republican in the special election, but will go to a runoff.
With 149 members, the quorum is back up to 100. Texas is somewhat odd in having a super-majority quorum. The original idea was to prevent a small minority gathering and acting as the whole body.
The simplest solution would be to deem that a representative has resigned of having 10 unexcused absences.
can they do this without an amendment? I feel this is too good to be ture. OR dems can do this as well I guess?
