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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the stealth and precision with which 53 Texas Democrats fled to a Holiday Inn in Ardmore, Okla., - denying Republicans in the Texas Legislature the quorum they needed to bring up a Congressional redistricting plan pushed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) said Hoyer told House Democrats that "if [Nancy Pelosi] [Pelosi] asks you to do something, you'd better be ready to do it."
Filner, for example, criticized the House Democratic leadership's penchant for relying on motions to recommit, a procedural maneuver that would send bills back to committee, to make their larger point. The Texas lawmakers, however, were thinking outside the box, Filner said.