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DALLAS – President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night appears to have won over many uncertain Republicans in this state while Democrats said...
WASHINGTON – "Bold." "Vague." "Visionary." "A dark, dystopian nightmare." That's how members of Texas' congressional delegation described President Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress as they left the Capitol Tuesday night.
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Rep. Marc Veasey of Fort Worth was the congressman who called the speech a "dystopian nightmare," noting that Trump offered few firm details about what a replacement to the Affordable Care Act will look like.
WASHINGTON — In possibly his most conventional political speech ever, President Donald Trump relayed a message of "unity and strength" as he laid out his vision for the country in speech before a joint session of Congress.
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U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, a Fort Worth Democrat, took issue with comments Trump made about leveraging allies to pony up for common defense spending.
AUSTIN (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has abandoned an Obama-era challenge to a 2011 Texas voter ID law that is among the toughest in the nation.
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Is this case over?
Democratic U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey from Dallas and several civil rights groups say they will continue to challenge the law in court without the backing of the Trump administration
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump used the grandest stage of the presidency Tuesday night to rally the public around a series of policy priorities that focused on the economy and security instead of the infighting that has plagued his young administration.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has abandoned an Obama-era challenge to a 2011 Texas voter ID law that is among the toughest in the nation. Civil rights groups are still contesting the Texas law in federal court, but without the muscle of the federal government behind them.
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IS THIS CASE OVER?
Democratic U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey from Dallas and several civil rights groups say they will continue to challenge the law in court without the backing of the Trump administration.
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump will enter the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, and make his first-ever address to a joint session of Congress.
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Texas Representative Marc Veasey (D–33) will be joined by Syrian refugee Bothina Matar and her family, while Michigan congressman Dan Kildee (D–5) has invited Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the Flint pediatrician who helped to expose the Flint water crisis, as his guest
When President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress for the first time Tuesday night, he is expected to set out a wide-ranging agenda for his first term in office, including stronger immigration enforcement.
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Rep. Marc Veasey of Texas said Monday he is bringing a family of Syrian refugees to the nation's capital for the speech.
In the 114th Congress (2015-16), the Texas delegation's roll-call voting behavior once again demonstrated that Texas Republicans are, on average, notably more conservative than their fellow congressional Republicans.
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Ten of the 11 Texas Democrats had Lib-Con Scores to the right of the median national U.S. House Democrat, including five in the Democratic delegation's most conservative quartile: Cuellar, Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, Gene Green, D-Houston, Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth and Rubén Hinojosa, D-Edinburg.