Redistricting is off the agenda, so the Dems are coming home.
I saw this in the Chronicle, while I was looking for news:
Feds helped search plane for Texas lawmakers
Associated Press
AUSTIN - An agency within the federal Homeland Security Department said today it helped search for a plane believed to be carrying Texas lawmakers because a state law officer made it seem as though the plane had run into trouble and might have crashed.
The plane had carried state Rep. Pete Laney, who flew to Ardmore, Okla., as part of a group of Democrats who left the state to help block a legislative quorum and halt debate on a congressional redistricting plan in the Texas House.
A Texas Department of Public Safety officer called the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Air and Marine Interdiction Coordination Center on Monday and requested assistance in finding a missing aircraft, the federal agency had said.
Today the Department of Homeland Security issued another statement saying that the center received an urgent phone call from a Texas DPS officer asking for help in finding a plane that was missing and had state representatives on board.
"From all indications, this request from the Texas DPS was an urgent plea for assistance from a law enforcement agency trying to locate a missing, lost, or possibly crashed aircraft," the statement said.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/1911853
