Flores, who represents the 17th Congressional District, said he will return to business in the private sector and remain politically active.
Adam Willis
Adam Willis was a Washington reporting fellow for the Texas Tribune in 2019. Previously he worked as a research assistant to Politico's Peter Canellos while freelancing stories for publications like the Boston Globe, Slate, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Politico Magazine. In the fall of 2018 he reported from the Philippines on the response of the Catholic Church to the country's war on drugs, a project supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He is a 2017 graduate of the University of Virginia, where he studied English Literature and edited an online pop-culture publication.
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Congress
“They should respect our opinions”: U.S. reps along the Texas-Mexico border serve as ambassadors for their homes
With the focus of Washington on the border, five Texas members of Congress have served as guides for their colleagues and advocates for their constituents.
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Politics
U.S. Rep. Kenny Marchant will not seek reelection, marking the fourth recent GOP retirement in Texas
Last year, Marchant won reelection by only a 3 percent margin.
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Politics
Chip Roy helped Ted Cruz agitate in the U.S. Senate. Now he has brought those tactics to the House.
Roy, a Republican from Austin who previously served as Cruz’s chief of staff, has employed a kind of procedural troublemaking to frustrate Democrats — and some Republicans — in Congress.
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Texans home in on obstruction of justice, investigative methods in Mueller hearing
U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Heath, argued that Special Counsel Robert Mueller went beyond his bounds by making clear the investigation didn’t exonerate the president.
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U.S. Rep. Al Green’s third attempt to impeach Trump falls flat
The Houston Democrat has repeatedly bucked party leadership by pushing impeachment. But the lone-wolf move failed once again Wednesday.
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“I’m not sorry”: A quarter-century later, Eddie Bernice Johnson stands by her crime bill vote
Johnson is the only Texan remaining in Congress who voted for the bill, which has become deeply unpopular among Democrats and is a contentious issue in the 2020 presidential primary.
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Several GOP Texans in Congress condemn Trump’s racist tweet, while many others remain silent
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she’ll call for a vote condemning the president’s words.
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Guides
Here’s what’s in the $4.6 billion border aid bill passed by Congress
Democratic leadership in the House signed onto the GOP-led Senate’s proposal Thursday after a fight over what should be included in the bill.
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Broken Border
U.S. House passes $4.5 billion border aid bill amid mounting concern for detained migrant children
Every Texas Democrat voted in support of the the $4.5 billion humanitarian aid package, which includes provisions to help migrant children. U.S. Rep. Will Hurd was the only Texas Republican to buck his party and support the measure.