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April 18, 2019

WASHINGTON — Judging by their reactions, it was as if Texas members of Congress read two wholly different versions of the much-anticipated Mueller report.

On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr released Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.


April 12, 2019

Sylvia Garcia has been in the public eye for decades, but rarely has the first-term congresswoman from Houston displayed the kind of raw emotion that viewers around the country observed when a video of her testimony at a committee hearing went viral.


April 10, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Colin Allred (TX-32) and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) led a bipartisan letter with Texas members of the U.S. House to the U.S. Surface Transportation Board urging support for Texas Central's Dallas to Houston high-speed rail project.


April 7, 2019

HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Three South Florida congresswomen have been denied access to a shelter for migrant children in Homestead just days after the Trump administration announced plans to expand the facility.


April 4, 2019

WASHINGTON—House Democrats' effort to prevent domestic abusers from possessing guns has roiled debate over a landmark domestic-violence bill that typically secures bipartisan support.


March 28, 2019

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Senate voted Tuesday to move forward on a $13.5 billion disaster relief bill for those affected by hurricanes, wildfires and flooding — funding that was hung up by partisan disputes over Puerto Rico and additional aid for farmers.


March 27, 2019

Latino Victory Fund, a national advocacy group that began in San Antonio, is putting more pressure on U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro to leap into the Senate race against Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn.

On Friday, Latino Victory put up a Run, Joaquin, Run website urging Castro, D-San Antonio, to seek the Democrats' 2020 nomination to challenge Cornyn, a three-term Senate veteran.


March 23, 2019

HOUSTON — By the time U.S. Sen Kamala Harris, D-California, took the stage here Saturday, the message was clear.


March 8, 2019

EL PASO, Texas — When Rep. Veronica Escobar thinks of her hometown, what comes to mind is the more than 100-year-old dairy farm that generations of Escobars have owned and worked.


March 5, 2019

Voters in Houston are choosing Tuesday between two Democrats in the special election runoff to replace former Democratic state Rep. Carol Alvarado, now a state senator.