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Biden will travel to Houston on Monday and Harris will attend a Celebration of Life Service on Thursday. The trip will mark Harris’ third visit to Texas in the past month.
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Jackson Lee was in the midst of running for her 16th term when she announced in June she had pancreatic cancer.
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Lee, a Houston Democrat, said she plans to continue serving but could have some occasional absences from Congress.
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Democrats hold narrow control of the Senate and have pledged to confirm Jackson — who would be the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court — by April 8.
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The United States is commemorating the end of slavery with a new federal holiday.
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Houston congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said she’ll push for the Biden administration to cut the state out of the loop, in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to lift a mask mandate in Texas.
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Hundreds of mourners lined up outside a Houston church Monday to honor George Floyd, a former Houston resident who was killed by police in Minneapolis two…
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It was almost another one of those Trump-era days when the mayhem of the national capital could be felt back home in Texas.Except this day felt bigger,…