Texas Trooper Arrests Absent House Democrat (Woo Hoo!)

Fox News ^ | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 | Associated Press

[Congressman Billybob]

The parliamentary procedure, which the US Congress also has, is that under certain circumstances officials can be sent out to arrest missing members and bring them physically back to the legislative chanber. For members of Congress, such arrests could occur anywhere in the US. For members of the Texas legislature, they can occur only in Texas -- which is exactly why the Democrats there are hiding across the state line in Oklahoma.

What I want to know is, how many Democrats need to be arrested and brought in to meet the quorum requirement? Obviously, not all of them need to be gathered up.

Congressman Billybob

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[deport]

2/3rds or 100 of the 150 members of the House is needed for a quorum. Currently they have 88 republicans and 7 democrats....... thus they need five more..... or according to an article I read earlier

It also take 21 of the 31 Senators to bring any bill to the floor in the Senate.....

[exodus]

I think that they should arrest and bring to the legislature exactly enough of the missing Democrats to fill the quorum, and then let the others stay in Oklahoma!

Then vote on every Republican supported issue while the Democrats are playing hookie!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

This stunt further illustrates the Democratic tailspin. They should replace the donkey logo with a clown car,maniacally driven by a cackling McAuliffe and pushed by the Clintons-careening off a cliff. The Democrat deck of cards should all be Jokers.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

It'd be nice if we could get eight more before the Thurs. deadline, get a quorum, start passing bills and really stick it to them. This tantrum is simultaneously infuriating and hilarious if that's possible. And you've got to love the Rat argument: our constituents don't want redistricting debated, so we're not going to debate anything and every bill will die. That's Chicken D logic for you. Then you have the predictable newspaper reaction.

[zygoat]

Perhaps they just wanted to experience the thrill that most of their voting bloc gets by crossing a northern border for illegal purposes.

[Becki]

I wonder if we could automatically replace all the dems that ran with stand by republicans?

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This is not a bad idea. I wonder if there are any emergency provisions in the TX constitution regarding filling seats. Perhaps the house could adjourn, and then they could appoint representatives, similar to the idea floated for the judicial nominies on a federal level.

Becki

[redhead]

"This stunt further illustrates the Democratic tailspin. They should replace the donkey logo with a clown car,maniacally driven by a cackling McAuliffe and pushed by the Clintons-careening off a cliff. The Democrat deck of cards should all be Jokers."

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