Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has said the chamber will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) to move ahead with legislative business, including redistricting.

Republican state lawmakers in Texas on Friday again failed to advance their controversial redistricting plan that would give them more seats in the U.S. House. Democrats fled the state in protest as the fight for control of Congress has spread to other states.

Texas Democrats again defied Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the state GOP and did not show up Friday for a vote on a controversial redistricting plan proposed by Republicans. The GOP-proposed new congressional maps that would give Republicans more seats in Congress -- potentially allowing the GOP to keep control of the U.