The Texas House panel on congressional redistricting passed a GOP redistricting plan out of committee Saturday morning along party lines and over several Democratic objections. With a 12-6 vote, House Bill 4,

A Texas House panel on Saturday advanced a draft congressional map aimed at adding five new Republican districts next year over protests from Democrats that the proposal would suppress the votes of people of color.

Jasmine Crockett said Friday that GOP-proposed congressional maps in Texas would draw her out of the district where she lives, part of a redistricting effort Democrats say is aimed at at picking up five seats to keep Republican control of the U.