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El Paso News El Paso Vince Perez Speaks About Quorum Break And Almost $10K In Fines

Posted on August 25, 2025
Of El Paso’s contingent of five Texas House of Representatives, Vince Perez was the only one to leave Texas in the effort to stop the GOP from enacting new maps giving the GOP five additional seats in congress.

On August 3, Texas House Democrats fled the state to stop the Republicans from adopting a new congressional map giving the GOP five additional sets in the U.S. House in the upcoming 2026 elections. By breaking quorum, the 62 Democrats stopped the Texas legislature from adopting the new map during their first attempt. When the […]

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