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Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas) died early Wednesday after serving just two months and two days in Congress, party officials said Wednesday. He was 70. Linda Brown, a spokesperson for Turner, told the Associated Press the congressman was taken to a hospital and died at his home on Wednesday morning after being released. Turner’s death means …
BREAKING 🚨🚨 Representative Sheila Jackson Lee has died May she rest in peace pic.twitter.com/Oiqpz9Lafx — Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) July 20, 2024 Sheila Jackson Lee, long-serving Democratic congresswoman and advocate for Black Americans, dies at 74. Sheila Jackson Lee, a longtime Democratic congresswoman from Texas who was an outspoken advocate for Black Americans for decades, …
WASHINGTON — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, announced Sunday that she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing treatment. Jackson Lee said it is “likely” that she will be “occasionally absent from Congress,” but she assured her district, which encompasses part of Houston, that her office “will continue to deliver the vital constituent …
Regional bank earnings may expose critical weaknesses, according to Sheila Bair, former chair of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Their quarterly numbers begin hitting Wall Street this week. “I’m worried about a handful of them,” Bair told CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Tuesday. “I think some of them are still overly reliant on industry deposits, …
BREAKING: Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, Endorsed By Hillary Clinton, Loses Houston Texas Mayoral Race In Landslide! https://t.co/pyqEUX1ubK — John Basham (@JohnBasham) December 10, 2023 via politico Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire defeated Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in the Houston mayoral race in Saturday’s runoff election after a campaign heavily focused on voter concerns over safety on …
Sheila Jackson Lee wants the world to know: "I rise today as a clear recipient of affirmative action.” pic.twitter.com/rlw9W5Rl0j — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 12, 2023