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Vincent Perez: “Breaking quorum and what the Democrats are doing is not very…”

Featuring: Vincent Perez, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 77

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Or how severe of a step is this actually in blocking something from being passed? Yeah, from a historical context, Breaking quorum and what the Democrats are doing is not very common. It's only happened about three times in the last 25 years. So when it happens, it's usually in response to something that's pretty severe that is in need of more attention and that warrants that kind of response. (01:31–01:42)

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Asserts that breaking quorum by Democrats has only occurred about three times in the last 25 years.

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