Also, Ted Cruz weighs in on Trump’s attacks on the Trump U judge, the GOP places a big bet on Will Hurd in the CD-23 race and the RPT rolls out the welcome mat for disaffected Bernie backers.
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 Launches Lawsuit Against Delaware over Unclaimed Checks
Standing on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday morning that his office launched a lawsuit against Delaware over millions of dollars he argued are owed to Texas and 20 other states.
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Texas GOP Congressman Declines to Endorse Trump
U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, a Bryan Republican, said Wednesday he won’t formally endorse his party’s nominee, real estate magnate Donald Trump, but he does plan to vote for him.
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Filemon Vela’s Letter to Trump Wows Washington
U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela’s colleagues see him as a quiet, hardworking congressman, not a bomb-throwing firebrand. So they’re still marveling that the Brownsville Democrat wrote the infamous letter that chapped Donald Trump’s ass.
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Texans in Congress Have A Few Weeks to Tackle Zika, Other Big Issues
Funding to combat the Zika virus. Restructuring Puerto Rico’s debt. And, oh yeah, keeping the government running. Congress has a short period to tackle some big issues. In nearly every battle, Texans are playing major roles.
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Texas Congressman to Trump: “Take Your Border Wall and Shove It Up Your Ass”
U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela unleashed on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in an open letter Monday morning.
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Hillary Clinton: With Trump as My Opponent, “We Could Win Texas”
In a new interview, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton posed a wild notion: She can carry Texas in the fall.
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Hillary Clinton Visits Texas, Rouses GOP Ire
Also, a pair of Texas Democrats accompany Barack Obama on Vietnam visit and Ted Cruz calls for resignation of VA secretary over Disney wait time comment.
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Self-Funders Dominate Texas Delegation in Congress
Two congressional candidates in this week’s runoffs loaned their campaigns more than $1 million. It’s the latest example of how self-funding is becoming the norm in congressional races.
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Arrington, Gonzalez Decisively Win Congressional Primaries
Voters in the state’s primary runoff elections put two Texans, one Republican and one Democrat, on track to join the state’s delegation in Washington, D.C.
