TEXAS \u2014 A GOP-led panel decided Friday to fine each Democratic state representative $8,000 for walking out of the state Capitol in August to protest a new congressional map.<\/p>\n
House rules allow lawmakers to be fined $500 for each day missed if the absence was \u201cfor the purpose of impeding the action of the House.\u201d Once the Democrats returned, the Legislature approved the map.<\/p>\n
Rep. Christian Manuel, one of the Democrats involved in the walkout, sent a response saying, \u201cI exercised my constitutional right to break quorum during the redistricting process. I respect the house and its rules, and I believe in transparency and accountability. I never stopped working for my constituents. This was a serious decision, made with a clear responsibility to represent my community and do what I believe is right. Sometimes, it takes action to be heard. that action brought national attention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 A GOP-led panel decided Friday to fine each Democratic state representative $8,000 for walking out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-246487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}