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One county, four U.S. House members, smiling family style
After the GOP-led Legislature redrew U.S. House districts in 2003, Travis County landed four U.S. House members, each of them ultimately getting a district taking in a portion of the county. And this morning a select crowd got to gander at them all in one place at the dedication of a planned federal courthouse on West Fifth Street in downtown Austin.
Freelance photographer Bob Daemmrich corraled the quartet for the brief photo shoot shown below — though I took these photos, each of them more informal than the one above it. The members are, from left to right, Reps. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, John Carter, R-Round Rock, Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, and Michael McCaul, R-Austin, though Smith isn’t visible in the third pic.
When they posed, I asked them to say “health care.” Or “tea party.” Not one did.
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By Nancy Hefner
September 2, 2009 2:31 PM | Link to this
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