Six months out from the filing deadline, Texas political operatives on the right and the even farther right are analyzing the state’s congressional map in an attempt to identify vulnerable members of the delegation.
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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Day After “Accident” Remark, Perry Strikes Somber Tone
A day after stirring controversy for referring to the Charleston shootings as an “accident,” former Gov. Rick Perry at an event in Washington on Saturday repeatedly called the massacre a “hate crime.”
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Cruz: Pray That Supreme Court Doesn’t Legalize Gay Marriage
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz used the imminent Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage to make his case to a socially conservative group on Thursday.
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Why Are So Few Texas Women in Congress?
Texas has just three women in its 38-member congressional delegation, and hasn’t sent a new long-term congresswoman to Washington in almost 20 years. Many in both parties wonder why the state’s once-promising fount of woman candidates is running dry.
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Democrats Help Defeat Obama’s Legacy Bill
The U.S. House on Friday shot down President Obama’s bid to negotiate the largest trade deal in American history. The people taking knives to his agenda were in his own party, including most of Texas’ Democratic delegation.
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Hensarling Leads Bid to Kill Export-Import Bank
U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Dallas Republican, has amassed enough political capital to become chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and he’s using it to try to kill the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the latest Tea Party punching bag.
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Perry Fires Back at Clinton on Voter ID
“I don’t know who she’s playing to, but she’s not playing to the people of Texas,” Rick Perry said on CNN, referring to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s criticism of his voter access policies as governor.
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Trade Deal Squeezes Congressional Democrats
Texas Democrats in the U.S. House face an agonizing choice: oppose a sweeping trade measure and deep-six President Obama’s economic legacy, or support it and antagonize labor, one of the largest financial constituents in the party.
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PerryTracker: Follow Perry on the Campaign Trail
On Thursday, former Gov. Rick Perry announced he was entering the 2016 campaign for president, the second time he has run for the White House. The Texas Tribune is compiling Perry’s public events — past and future — since his official launch.
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8 Things to Know About Rick Perry
As Rick Perry announces his second run at the GOP presidential nomination, here are the eight things to know about him.
