When the GOP Texas Senate on Monday unveiled its proposed new district maps for Texas’ seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, the likely impact on greater Houston’s slate of congressmen and women was pretty clear. Local red districts would get redder and blue districts would get bluer under the new plan, meaning incumbent Republican House Reps. Dan Crenshaw and Troy Nehls and Democrats Al Green, Sheila Jackson Lee and Sylvia Garcia would likely face easy paths to reelection in 2022.
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