LIVE: Texas Senate meets amid redistricting standoff

From Reuters.

The Texas Senate holds a special committee meeting on redistricting as the escalating political fight over the state’s congressional map spreads across other states in the country.

Texas Republicans proposed new congressional districts aimed at flipping five Democrat-held U.S. House seats in next year’s midterm elections, further skewing what is already considered a deeply partisan map in that state.

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