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Jump to: navigation , search. Democratic Party. Texas' current delegation to the United States Congress. John Cornyn R. Ted Cruz R. District 1. Louis Gohmert R. Daniel Crenshaw R. Lizzie Fletcher D. Kevin Brady R. Michael McCaul R. August Pfluger R. Ronny Jackson R. Vicente Gonzalez D. Veronica Escobar D. Pete Sessions R.
If we are going to do that in the future, any tax increase must be tied to economic growth indicators such as GDP or drop in the unemployment rate. See our Guide to the U. Senate Race for information on candidates and video interviews.
Search Query Show Search. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. Hubbard grew up in a Republican family in the Kaufman County town of Scurry pop. After graduating with a degree in political science from the University of Texas at Dallas , he took a sales job for a door company in Garland and worked on the congressional campaign of Manny Molera , a family friend and a Democrat.
The experience led him to switch parties. Six years after his candidate lost, Hubbard helped organize Barack Obama 's Dallas outreach effort in Also that year, he married Jamie Van, a native of Cambodia who works as a hairdresser.
The couple has a4-month-old daughter. He quit his job last December, assured his wife he would share the child-rearing chores equally and declared his candidacy - not for city council or the U. House , but for the U. Given the gerrymandered nature of congressional districts, his chance of winning a Senate seat, he calculated, was about as good as winning a House seat.
He also had notions of changing the makeup of the Senate. I thought, 'What about having a guy that had to work for his paycheck every week run for the U. He also hoped to jolt his fellow Democrats into action.
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