The two-term Houston representative holds a congressional seat with a storied Republican lineage. With the GOP-controlled Legislature about to release new district maps, some expect they will try to wrest the seat back into their column.
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With COVID-19 making paid parental leave even more critical, the Dallas Democrat is helping lead the move to change federal policy for fathers as well as mothers.
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A tale of two capital cities: Texas Democrats continue fight for voting rights in Washington as Republicans push them to return
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State Rep. Cecil Bell Jr, R-Magnolia, sits on the House floor on July 19, 2021.
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Outside of the Texas House chamber, state Rep. Briscoe Cain is setting traps for Democrats.
The first was a case of Miller Lite placed under a brown shipping box propped open with a stick, a nod to the now-viral photograph of House Democrats smiling on a bus with a 12-pack visible in one of the seats as they left the state earlier this month to prevent passage of a GOP election bill at the Texas Legislature.