Some House Democrats may still be in Texas. Why haven't they been arrested?

But for all the effort, officials have seemed unwilling to actually haul in absent Democrats who didn’t flee the state with the rest of the group – a hesitation that is starting to aggravate the party’s most hardline members.

“There are three in Houston,” state Rep. Briscoe Cain of Deer Park told the Texas Tribune last week about potential Democratic members on the run. “It just takes guts to go get them."