The legislature is meeting in special session to draft plans that could give the party five more seats in Congress.

State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, a Southlake Republican, responded after a report published by conservative website Current Revolt.

Speaking to two dozen state lawmakers, a packed hearing room, two overflow rooms and a robust virtual waiting room, Texans condemned the Legislature’s plan to redraw the state’s congressional map at the House redistricting committee’s first public meeting on Thursday.

Since the story broke, The Texas Tribune reports, Republican Representative Briscoe Cain, another prominent anti-abortion lawmaker in Texas’s House, called for Capriglione’s resignation, and urged the body’s Committee on General Investigating to probe the matter.

Lawmakers held hearings in Austin on some of the highest-profile items on the agenda, including flood response, redistricting and regulating THC.

As Texas, under pressure from President Trump, considers redrawing congressional lines to boost GOP numbers in Congress, California considers responding by boosting the state's Democratic districts.

Texas Democrats are considering their options to block a Republican-led effort to redraw the state's congressional maps during a special session that began Monday

At Trump's urging, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has requested lawmakers potentially redraw the state's electoral map. Opponents warn it could backfire.

Representative Moran introduced the Rural Weather Monitoring Systems Act, which requires the GAO (Government Accountability Office) to identify gaps in coverage and make recommendations to improve early detection of severe weather. The GAO would also have to identify funding choke points that prevent the purchase and deployment of modern radars.

Districts in Houston, Austin, Dallas and South Texas could be part of the push to create up to five new Republican seats in Congress.

Texas lawmakers could change their legislative districts at the urging of President Donald Trump to pick up GOP seats in Congress.