Republicans across the party’s political spectrum denounced Trump’s guilty verdict on 34 felony counts related to falsifying business records.
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Health care
Ted Cruz files bill to protect IVF
The Texas Republican’s Senate bill comes as the state supreme court considers taking up a case that could imperil access to in vitro fertilization.
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Politics
Texans triumph in fight to get direct flights from San Antonio to Washington, D.C.
The push to get more nonstop flights to the nation’s capital pit Texans against Virginians, who were opposed to the expansion.
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Politics
Texas delegation urges Congress to withhold aid to Mexico over water treaty dispute
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers are demanding appropriators withhold funds for the country until Mexico lives up to its end of a 1944 water treaty that requires it to send 1.75 million acre-feet to the U.S. every five years.
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Panhandle Wildfires
Ted Cruz and Ronny Jackson push legislation to help ranchers who lost livestock in Panhandle wildfires
The Republican senator and congressman introduced a bill that would expand a federal aid program to pay ranchers when pregnant cattle are killed in disasters.
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Politics
Texas Republicans rue Democrats for dismissing Mayorkas impeachment without trial
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the trial the “least legitimate, least substantive, and most politicized impeachment trial in the history of the United States.”
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2024 Texas Elections
Colin Allred’s fundraising for U.S. Senate race surpasses O’Rourke’s early 2018 pace
U.S. Rep. Colin Allred raised over $9.5 million for his U.S. Senate campaign this quarter, surpassing Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 first quarter sum of $6.7 million.
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Politics
Ted Cruz faces campaign finance complaint over podcast deal
End Citizens United and the Campaign Legal Center asserted Cruz could have broken campaign finance rules.
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Politics
U.S. Rep. Colin Allred voted for TikTok ban despite continuing to use the app
Allred is the delegation’s most prolific user of the app. He said he voted for the legislation because of national security concerns.
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2024 Texas Elections
U.S. Rep. Colin Allred wins Democratic primary to face Sen. Ted Cruz in November
Allred bested state Sen. Roland Gutierrez in a crowded pool of Democrats.