Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a ...

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier was told she was not free to leave the building after refusing to sign a permission slip ...

Democratic state Representative Nicole Collier spent the night in the Texas Capitol building rather than agree to a police ...

A protest is planned Tuesday outside of the House chamber where one lawmaker is refusing to leave after rejecting monitoring ...

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement ...

Collier stayed on the House floor overnight, sleeping in the chamber, alongside two other lawmakers, House Democratic Caucus Chair State Rep. Gene Wu (D-Houston) and State Rep. Vince Perez (D-El Paso) ...

The state representative returned to Austin this week for a second special session after leaving to break quorum in the last session. She didn’t expect she’d end up sleeping in the House chambers.

As a part of the ongoing protests, one Houston representative spent the night at the Capitol, while another remains out of state.

The Texas House reached a quorum earlier Monday after Democrats returned to Austin, ending a two-week standoff with ...

Several Texas state House Democrats ripped up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort and returned to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

A California legislative hearing turned into a shouting match Tuesday as a Republican lawmaker clashed with Democrats over a partisan plan to rewrite U.S. House maps to win Democrats more seats.