Houston, Aug. 21 -- The Texas GOP-dominated House of Representatives passed a redistricting bill aimed at garnering five new congressional seats for Republicans in the U.S. midterm elections next year.
The state House passed the redrawn congressional map by a vote of 88 to 52 along party lines.
The vote came after a two-week delay when more than 50 Texas Democratic lawmakers stayed out of the state in protest against the rare mid-decade redistricting plan.
On Wednesday at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Democratic lawmakers introduced 12 amendments to the redistricting bill, but Republicans rejected all of them.
The state Senate, also controlled by Republicans, is expected to vote for the bill later this week and send the legislation t...