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State representatives ripped up permission slips that Republican House leaders gave Democratic lawmakers trying to leave the Capitol building. One even spent the night sleeping inside the chambers.
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The Republican-controlled chamber will gavel back into session Wednesday with an intent to vote on a plan to help the GOP in the midterms.
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The action in California comes in response to a Republican-led move in Texas to draw a congressional map more favorable to the GOP.
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The effort is intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. Other states, red and blue, are likely to redraw their own maps.
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(Second column, 7th story, link)
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Democrats hope to recruit Governor Janet Mills to challenge the powerful Republican senator, but an oyster farmer with a working man's pitch thinks he has a better chance.
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"This is just my way of resisting," said Texas state representative Nicole Collier after Republicans ordered Democrats to be monitored by police if they left the statehouse again.
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Nicole Collier, a state representative, slept in the Capitol rather than agree to police surveillance imposed by Republicans after a Democratic walkout. "I am resisting," she said.
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Republican state lawmakers argue that Democratic lawmakers violated 30-day disclosure rules in the California Constitution.
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