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Fauzeya Rahman is a Hearst fellow at the Houston Chronicle.

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Beto O'Rourke
stated on March 31, 2017 in a U.S. Senate campaign kickoff event in Dallas:

"I’m one of two members of Congress out of 535 that takes no corporate cash, no political action committee money."

By Fauzeya Rahman • July 27, 2017
The Coalition for Public Schools
stated on January 23, 2017 in an emailed press release:

"Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995, but all of them have failed to become law."

By Fauzeya Rahman • March 17, 2017
John Cornyn
stated on November 22, 2016 in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:

Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.

By Fauzeya Rahman • January 31, 2017
Sid Miller
stated on November 27, 2016 in a Facebook post of photo and caption on Miller's fan page:

Says actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wore a T-shirt stating: "We Stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen."

By Fauzeya Rahman • December 7, 2016
Virginia "Jennie Lou" Leeder
stated on October 17, 2016 in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman:

Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."

By Fauzeya Rahman • November 18, 2016
Progress Texas
stated on September 20, 2016 in a blog post:

"Donald Trump's education plan to dramatically slash funding for public education would fire 49,000 Texas teachers."

By Fauzeya Rahman • October 20, 2016
Sylvester Turner
stated on July 26, 2016 in a tweet announcing new display signage at airports and Houston's City Hall:

"Welcome to #Houston, the most #diverse city in #America."

By Fauzeya Rahman • September 23, 2016
Jeannette Vaught
stated on May 4, 2016 in an op-ed published in the Austin American-Statesman:

"Only five Texas counties account for almost 90 percent of the (state’s) cattle industry."

By Fauzeya Rahman • July 29, 2016
Rodney Ellis
stated on May 19, 2016 in a press release in response to a lawsuit:

Harris County, Texas has "some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world."

By Fauzeya Rahman • July 8, 2016
Sylvester Turner
stated on March 4, 2016 in a press conference announcing new chairman of transit authority:

"The Katy Freeway, or Interstate 10 west of Houston, is the widest freeway in the world, with up to 26 lanes, including frontage road lanes."

By Fauzeya Rahman • April 13, 2016