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Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday, giving the former vice president his sixth supporter from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Garcia, who served as one of the House's seven impeachment managers during the Senate's trial last month, represents a majority-Hispanic district that covers parts of Houston.

A bilingual freshman, Garcia said she will be active on Biden's behalf in the run-up to Super Tuesday March 3. She has spoken to the campaign about going to Nevada and South Carolina ahead of their respective caucuses and primary this month.

(link to video: Meet the Impeachment Managers | Full Frontal on TBS)

Sensing despair in the face of overwhelming odds is natural. Succumbing to disillusionment when the deck is a stacked against you is understandable. Samantha Bee gets that.

These very reasons are what drive the host of TBS' topical comedy series "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" to counter those very legitimate notions with optimism. And joy. Right now.

She's serious about this.

Anna Alvarez is a working mom and grandmother — one of my constituents from the Texas 29th Congressional District. She is an example of working-class Americans who are struggling to make ends meet and are urging Congress to enact legislation to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and strengthen the country's labor laws to ensure a worker's right to start and join a labor union.

Read her story below:

Being at the center of the Donald Trump impeachment trial was an unforgettable experience for Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia. "We did this for the people, for our Constitution, and our democracy because no one is above the law," she tells People CHICA. "Nadie está por encima de la ley. I would oftentimes say that line in Spanish as well because I wanted Latinos in my district, across the country, and around the world to know that they had one of them on the team fighting for what is right to defend democracy. I wanted people to see themselves reflected in me and hear their language. That is why I also often made myself available to Spanish press because it was important for nuestra gente to stay informed on what was happening."

One of the most significant bills to strengthen workers' abilities to organize in the past 80 years passed the House on Thursday, the latest sign of momentum for the labor movement.

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, known as the PRO Act, would amend some of the country's decades-old labor laws to give workers more power during disputes at work, add penalties for companies that retaliate against workers who organize and grant some hundreds of thousands of workers collective-bargaining rights they don't currently have. It would also weaken "right-to-work" laws in 27 states that allow employees to forgo participating in and paying dues to unions.

The House passed the bill with a vote of 224 to 194, mostly along party lines.

Garcia highlighted the three ABCs that Trump has been accused of:

• Abusing his power
• Betraying the country
• Corrupting elections

Garcia also noted that senators from both sides of the aisle agree the president acted inappropriately, and that the question now is whether his behavior warrants removal from office.

In addition to the vast majority of the Democratic caucus, two Republican senators — Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — acknowledge that Trump did something wrong. Alexander has indicated he will vote to acquit Trump because he doesn't think Trump's actions rose to the level of impeachable offenses.

Murkowski has also made up her mind on how she will vote but she's declined to publicly discuss it.

WASHINGTON — The chosen seven strode across the U.S. Capitol rotunda before the eyes of history and a live television audience. It was late in the afternoon on Wednesday, January 15. On their way to the Senate to formally deliver impeachment charges against Donald Trump, six of the impeachment managers appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi walked in pairs. The seventh followed by herself.

To be among that group was an opportunity to take center stage in a landmark moment of American politics, to burnish one's oratory gifts from the well of the Senate live on prime cable news in the political equivalent of American Idol.

No surprise, then, that Democratic House members from across the country intensely lobbied Pelosi, coveting such a shot at political stardom.

But the one Texan to earn Pelosi's nod, the one who walked alone that day, didn't ask for the job.

WASHINGTON — A former police chief, a prosecutor who won the conviction of an F.B.I. agent and one of Texas' first Latina representatives. A constitutional law professor who once defended O.J. Simpson against a murder charge, a former special prosecutor who pursued the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and a litigator for the Christian right.

For the third time in American history, the Senate has convened as a court of impeachment to consider whether to remove a sitting president, and two teams of lawyers are facing off in a confrontation with heavy political and constitutional consequences.