Texas’ seven freshly elected members of Congress run the ideological gamut, from impassioned conservatives to some of the most progressive members ever sent from Texas.
Crockett is eyeing the House Financial Services and Oversight committees, owing to her experience in the Texas House Business and Industry and Criminal Jurisprudence committees, as well as Dallas’ considerable income inequality.
“I want to make sure that I go in and I have my own identity. When you go in and you specifically say, ‘hey, I’m a squad member,’ then you’re kind of put into a specific kind of box,” Crockett said. “I don’t think that you can put a Texan in a box.”U.S. Congressman-elect Greg Casar speaks at AFL-CIO’s labor celebration in downtown Austin on Oct. 29, 2022.Crockett isn’t the only progressive heading to Congress.
“A vast majority of people in Texas and across the country believe that we should raise the minimum wage from starvation at $7.25 to at least $15 an hour and that everyone should have the right to a decent union job,” Casar said.Long before running in his Houston race this year, Wesley Hunt was a rising star within the Texas Republican Party. Hunt came 3.3 percentage points of unseating incumbent U.S. Rep., D-Houston, in the 2020 race for the 7th Congressional District.
That could be a hard get for someone fresh to Washington who has no experience in elected office. But if a freshman were to get it, Hunt can still make a compelling case. The entirety of the Houston energy corridor lies within his district, and he plans to make energy his top policy priority in Congress.
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