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The Texas State House is set to hold a preliminary vote as early as today on a new congressional map.
The House plan is a little different than the map being considered by the Texas State Senate,
but both aim to create new districts that could send five more Republicans to the U.S.
House in next year's midterm elections.
Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider reports.
A Texas House committee rushed through its alternative map as one of the first orders.
of business after Democrats returned on Monday and the chamber re-established a quorum.
The main difference between the House and Senate map is in the Houston area,
where the House's proposed ninth congressional district would expand to include the largely rural and conservative Liberty County.
That would all but guarantee that the district,
which has long been represented by Congressman Al Green, would shift from Democratic to Republican.
For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston.