The breakdown raised new questions about the way forward for Congress and the trickle-down effects for politics and federal spending in Texas.
Kevin Brady
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Campaign Roundup: The Week’s Political News
Some of the Republican U.S. Senate candidates fight to appeal to the right, and a domestic partner becomes the centerpiece in a race for the State Board of Education.
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Campaign Chatter
No endorsement yet, but the foreshadowing from Texans for Lawsuit Reform is pretty obvious in San Antonio’s Senate race; they’re for the challenger.
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Economy
Texas Republicans Pile On Job Numbers
Texas’s congressional Republicans seized on new unemployment numbers to decry President Obama’s economic policies days after he stopped in Mesquite to sell his jobs plan.
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Criminal Justice
Frequent Flyers
Members of the Texas congressional delegation took more than 200 privately funded trips, at a cost of more than $350,000, in 2008 and 2009.
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State Government
The Brief: December 2, 2009
With the filing deadline fast approaching, are Democrats beginning to feel some holiday cheer?