U.S. Rep. Ted Poe resigned his membership from the Freedom Caucus, a hardline conservative group that helped derail the Obamacare overhaul bill.
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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Health care
GOP plan to overhaul health care falls apart
The American Health Care Act was abruptly pulled Friday ahead of a scheduled vote on the legislation.
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Health care
Gohmert, Weber among holdouts as House postpones health bill vote
A landmark Republican overhaul to the country’s health care system may have died in its track Thursday. Three Texas Republicans were among those pushing for changes to the bill before agreeing to support it.
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Health care
Texas Republicans divided as health care overhaul hangs in the balance
In Wednesday’s dawn-to-dusk fight over repealing the law that served as a central campaign issue for Republicans over the last four election cycles, Texans were right in the middle.
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Here’s where the 25 House Republicans from Texas stand on the GOP health bill
Most Republicans in the Texas delegation are behind the measure a day before the U.S. House is poised to vote on an overhaul of the Affordable Care Act strongly backed by President Trump.
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Texans in Congress anticipate controversial health care vote
The dilemma for many House Republicans — including Texans — is this: Anger their conservative base, or risk venturing into Trump’s crosshairs?
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Politics
Texans Castro, Conaway and Hurd grill Comey over Russian hack
U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway, a Midland Republican, questioned FBI Director James Comey at Monday’s hearing on whether the intelligence community was certain that Russia intended to help Donald Trump become president.
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Health care
After years of insisting on “repeal,” Ted Cruz walks a fine line on health care
“If Republicans take this opportunity and blow it, we will rightly be considered a laughingstock,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said Wednesday regarding divisions among Republicans on the leading proposal to overhaul the Affordable Care Act.
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Will and Beto drive to D.C.: top things we learned from the congressional road trip
U.S. Reps. Beto O’Rourke and Will Hurd talked policy and personal matters while live streaming a road trip to Washington on Tuesday.
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Health care
Ted Cruz: New health care bill doomed in the Senate without changes
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said Wednesday that he has “significant concerns” about the new House health care plan, though he’s optimistic those differences can be resolved.
