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John Cornyn won't object to certification of Joe Biden's win, but other Texas Republicans will By Patrick Svitek/The Texas Tribune Published  article U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced Tuesday that he isn't planning to object to the certification of the Electoral College vote in Congress, splitting with a growing number of GOP colleagues that most notably includes the state’s junior senator, Ted Cruz. In a lengthy letter to Texans, Cornyn noted that he has supported President Donald Trump’s right to challenge election results in the courts but that Trump's lawsuits have gone now...

By Sanchali Basu Houston: They call themselves The Three Masketeers. They are a teenage trio from Pearland, who have been recently awarded the prestigious Governor’s Volunteer Award for 2020. These high schoolers were killing time during the forced lockdown, somewhat dejected that their research presentations at the Texas Science and Engineering Fair had also been killed. But an idle mind is truly a devil’s workshop–the devil in this case being Bane. Inspired by the Bane mask from Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, these boys resiliently devoted their energies to a cause that would ...

11 Texas Republicans in House vote to help override Trump’s veto of defense bill, setting up first such rebuke of president The GOP-run Senate could take up the override vote as soon as Tuesday WASHINGTON – Eleven Texas Republicans bucked President Donald Trump late Monday on a critical defense authorization bill, helping the Democrat-run House vote 322-87 to override one of his vetoes for the first time in the Republican’s presidency. The unprecedented action in the waning weeks of Trump’s White House tenure now moves to the GOP-run Senate, which is expected to take a similar overrid...

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Credit: Ryan Garza/USA Today Network via REUTERS In a rare holiday week vote, members of the U.S. House returned to Washington to override on Monday President Trump's veto of a bill that handles the budget and spending of the Department of Defense. The National Defense Authorization Act is a $740 billion bill that dates back to 1961 it is one of the few annual bipartisan pieces of legislation left in Congress. House Democrats named this year's NDAA in honor of a Texas Republican, U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry of Clarendon. Thornberry is a former chairman of the House Armed Services Comm...