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BumRushDaShow

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7. He was a stalwart pillar from TX for a long time

Reply to SomewhereInTheMiddle (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 22, 2025, 08:25 AM

Aug 22

but I haven't heard his name mentioned much recently (if at all) as other, more "vocal" members of the TX delegation have "made more noise" (e.g., Joaquin Castro, Al Green, the now-deceased Sheila Jackson-Lee, and more recently, Jasmine Crockett).

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