May 13, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
You can watch a livestream of the Texas House below. The chamber is expected to gavel in at 10 a.m. and could go late into the night.
Running down the clock — or “chubbing" — could become a tactic to hinder legislation
May 13, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
After failing to wrestle back control of the lower chamber in the November election, Democrats remain the House minority. But the end-of-session deadlines present the party with one of its few bits of leverage to block bills its members don’t support. They can do so by a process known as “chubbing.”