We are safe, we are secure, and we are undeterred,” said caucus leaders after police searched the hotel where some of the lawmakers who had fled Texas were staying.

More than 50 Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday to prevent a quorum in the state House of Representatives to move forward on a bill that would set new congressional districts​.

Members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus were evacuated from a Chicago-area hotel early Tuesday morning after a bomb threat was reported amid lawmakers' continued out-of-state protest against a Republican-led redistricting plan in the Texas Legislature.