It's a lack of character and it's a show of cowardice on their part by refusing to stay here and fight for what they believe and say their values are. And so I know that at one point in time, when I call special session after special session after special session, they eventually are going to have to return and live up to their constitutional duty, and that is show up and cast votes based upon the bills before them. (00:20–00:34)
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Asserts that [the legislators who left Texas] will have to return to fulfill their constitutional duty to vote.
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