HOUSE WALKOUT SUCCEEDS
Texas House adjourns early, letting redestricting die

AUSTIN -- Speaker Tom Craddick adjourned the Texas House today until 9 a.m. Friday, allowing a group of errant Democrats to defeat a Republican proposal to redraw congressional district boundaries.

The redistricting bill will automatically die at midnight. The 50-plus Democrats, most whom have spent four days in Ardmore, Okla., to break a House quorum, planned to return to the Capitol on Friday.

Yay!

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