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Staying or leaving? Potential successors await Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson's decision on another term


Staying or leaving? Potential successors await Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s decision on another term
One contender has formed an exploratory committee as elected leaders ponder campaigns of their own.
U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, 85, is the first registered nurse to be elected to Congress and the first Black American woman ever elected to public office from Dallas.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
5:45 AM on May 17, 2021 CDT
As U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson settles into her 15th term, potential successors are preparing for her to leave.
Two years ago Johnson suggested to constituents through automated phone calls that she would retire when her term ends in 2023, telling supporters that she was running for “one more term” as representative from southern Dallas County’s Congressional District 30. Many Dallas political operatives are predicting that she will step away based on remarks at various events during her 2020 campaign. That would set up a ....

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'Stop killing us': Eric Garner's mom, other advocates meet with lawmakers amid growing demand for police reform


‘Stop killing us’: Eric Garner’s mom, other advocates meet with lawmakers amid growing demand for police reform
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Gwen Carr and other relatives of Black Americans killed by cops met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday in a push for rapid passage of a sweeping police reform bill, ramping up pressure one day after President Biden set a firm deadline for action on the high-stakes issue.
Carr, whose son, Eric Garner, died after an NYPD officer put him in a now-illegal chokehold on Staten Island in 2014, was joined by Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, Alissa Findley, the sister of police murder victim Botham Jean, and other advocates for back-to-back meetings with both Democrats and Republicans. ....

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Victim relatives hold Capitol Hill meetings to push police reform


Victims relatives hold Capitol Hill meetings to push police reform
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Victims relatives hold Capitol Hill meetings to push police reform
The brother of George Floyd, the mother of Eric Garner and the sister of Botham Jean met with both Democratic and Republican lawmakers at the Capitol on Thursday, seeking to pressure Congress to take action on police reform.
Philonise Floyd, Gwen Carr and Alissa Findley, whose relatives are among the most prominent victims of police killings, met with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) before sitting down with South Carolina s two Republican senators, Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham. ....

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