 She would also have a career perfect attendance record too except for the month of July 2003, when she joined her fellow Democrats who fled to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to prevent a quorum to halt Republican plans to re-redistrict the Texas congressional map.After three special legislative sessions, the GOP plan was adopted, but it was later altered by the United States Supreme Court.That change resulted in the defeat in 2006 of Republican U.S. Representative Henry Bonilla of San Antonio.