Texas’ senators joined a mostly party-line vote to confirm Kavanaugh, after one of the most contentious nominations in American history.
Abby Livingston
Abby Livingston joined The Texas Tribune in 2014 as the publication's first Washington bureau chief, and departed August 2022. In this role, she covered members in the Texas congressional delegation and campaigns back in the home state. A seventh-generation Texan, Abby grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to the Tribune, Abby worked for NBC, CNN, National Journal and Roll Call. At the Tribune, she won the 2017 National Press Club Award for Washington regional reporting and the Society of Professional Journalists' 2018 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence. Abby is a contributing writer to the Almanac of American Politics and frequently appears on MSNBC, CNN and Sirius XM radio. She also had a role on an episode of "The Bold and The Beautiful." In keeping with the Trib’s great history of hiring softball stars, Abby is a three-time MVP (the most in game history) for The Bad News Babes, the women’s press softball team that takes on female members of Congress in the annual Congressional Women’s Softball breast cancer charity game.
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Sens. Ted Cruz, John Cornyn vote to advance Brett Kavanaugh nomination
Cruz said Friday that he thought Kavanaugh had the temperament to serve on the high court. Cornyn suggested that many of the people protesting the nomination were paid.
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Politics
Disclosures offer window into personal finances of Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke in Senate race
Congressional disclosures show that both men earn and borrow sums of money that far surpass that of the average Texan.
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Report: Former intern for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee accused of posting GOP senators’ private information online
Jackson A. Cosko is accused of “doxing” three Republican members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee who were at the center of last week’s controversial U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh, the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday.
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Texas 2020 Elections
U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke discusses DWI, term limits
At the closing keynote of the Texas Tribune Festival, the Senate hopeful said the police report of his 1998 drunk driving arrest is incorrect and reaffirmed his commitment to not seek higher office if elected.
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Texas Elections 2018
Second Ted Cruz-Beto O’Rourke debate postponed
The decision comes as the U.S. Senate focuses on the confirmation process of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Politics
Following Kavanaugh allegations, Cornyn and Cruz say they want to hear from both sides
Both Texas senators are a part of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hear the allegations on Thursday.
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Politics
Ted Cruz heckled in Washington restaurant over Kavanaugh controversy
According to a pair of videos posted online, a group of opponents to the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh hounded U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, out of a Washington, D.C., restaurant Monday evening.
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Texas Elections 2018
Ted Cruz at center of U.S. Supreme Court storm
With the midterms just weeks away and sexual misconduct allegations swirling around Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the political stakes are high for the junior senator from Texas.
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Congress
Ted Cruz calls for Kavanaugh accuser to testify before Senate committee
Texas’ senior U.S. senator, John Cornyn, said the allegations needed to be treated “in a way that is fair to both the individual making the accusation and the judge himself.”