{"id":16281,"date":"2025-12-04T18:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-texas-massive-delegation-is-losing-its-sway-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:21:28","slug":"capitol-agenda-texas-massive-delegation-is-losing-its-sway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-texas-massive-delegation-is-losing-its-sway-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Texas\u2019 massive delegation is losing its sway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday could determine whether the Lone Star State gets five more Republican-leaning seats next Congress. Yet the state&rsquo;s Texas-sized influence is beginning to wane. The Texas GOP delegation is losing its clout due to a combination of redistricting, retirements and bids for higher office. The group is on track to lose the seniority and committee gavels it once wielded to influence key decisions in the House&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/04\/congress\/texas-house-delegation-influence-republican-retirements-00676395\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday could determine whether the Lone Star State gets five more Republican-leaning seats next Congress. Yet the state&rsquo;s Texas-sized influence is beginning to wane. The Texas GOP delegation is losing its clout due to a combination of redistricting, retirements and bids for higher office. The group is on track to lose the seniority and committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}