Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows on Friday vowed that runaway Democrats who try to return home over the weekend will not have a "peaceful weekend" and instead will be arrested and "compelled to this chamber."A new special session of the Texas House of Representatives got underway on Friday afternoon, just two hours after the Republican-dominated chamber once again was unable to reach a quorum after Democrats failed to show up.As the Democratic lawmakers who fled Texas to prevent any votes on congressional redistricting in the red state signal they're coming home, Republicans in the GOP-domin...
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