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Texas Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, right, huddles with other democrat senators and staff members to fight against a bill on a redrawn U.S. congressional map during a special session in the Senate ...

In a vote along party lines, Republicans in a Texas State House committee voted to advance a map that redraws lines for nearly all of the Lonestar State's congressional map. The map, under House Bill ...