Cruz, a Texas Republican, is at the forefront of revamping the U.S. Senate’s internal sexual harassment policies. Last year he joined a New York Democrat in introducing legislation proposing such an overhaul.
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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Texas Elections 2018
New poll finds race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke “too close to call”
A new Quinnipiac University poll of Texas voters finds 47 percent support Cruz, the Republican incumbent, while 44 percent back O’Rourke, an El Paso Democrat.
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Politics
In 2010, Blake Farenthold beat a Texas Democrat who seemed invincible. Will a Republican face the same fate in 2018?
Democrats took a shellacking during President Barack Obama’s first midterm election in 2010, and U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz’s loss was one of the biggest surprises. Eight years later, some are wondering if Republicans have some overly confident incumbents unprepared for a potential “blue wave” in November.
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Texas Elections 2018
Ted Cruz to report raising less than half what Beto O’Rourke raised this year
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign will report raising $3.2 million in the first three months of this year, less than half the $6.7 million his Democratic rival has said he will report for the period.
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Politics
Paul Ryan retirement plans could make waves for Texas delegation
The decision could spur Republicans in Texas to seek leadership positions. Fundraising in the state and elsewhere could also be affected.
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Congress
At Facebook hearing, Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn grill Zuckerberg on social network’s content
Both U.S. Senators from Texas questioned the embroiled Facebook CEO about the content on the social networking site. Cruz accused Zuckerberg of engaging in “bias and censorship.”
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Texas Elections 2018
U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold resigns from Congress
“While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I know in my heart it’s time for me to move along and look for new ways to serve,” the Corpus Christi Republican, who has been dogged by sexual harassment allegations, said in a statement.
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Texas Elections 2018
Beto O’Rourke says Ted Cruz and Donald Trump “want you to be afraid of Mexicans”
O’Rourke also said he doesn’t want to repeal the Second Amendment, and that taxes are too low for corporations.
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Texas Elections 2018
Defying earlier expectations, runoff to replace Rep. Blake Farenthold could be a toss-up
In last month’s Republican primary, former Texas Water Board Commission Chairman Bech Bruun came in first but by a narrower margin than many expected, drawing more attention to runner-up Michael Cloud ahead of next month’s runoff.
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Months after Sutherland Springs, Sen. John Cornyn and Texas colleagues push improved gun background checks into law
Cornyn, the most powerful Texan in Congress, attached the measure to a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill.
