Texas Democrats have left the US state en masse in an effort to prevent Republicans there from passing a law to tighten voting rules.
Fifty House Democrats boarded two private jets to Washington yesterday.
It comes days into a special legislative session in Texas in which Republicans are advancing measures that would make it harder to vote, by imposing new identification requirements on mail-in ballots, banning 24-hour and drive-thru voting, and empowering partisan poll watchers.
Washington correspondent Simon Marks is following the developments.
