Republicans hold a 219-212 majority in the House, with four vacancies. New maps are typically drawn once a decade after the census is conducted. Many states, including Texas, give legislators the power to draw maps. California is among states that rely on an independent commission that is supposed to be nonpartisan.

More than 50 Democratic Texas House members have been out of state for nearly two weeks in an effort to block a Republican-led legislation that would redraw the state's congressional maps. On Thursday,