
Armando Walle
@RepWalle
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Husband, father, brother & compadre. Public servant of TX House Dist. 140. Born on banks of Buffalo Bayou. @UHouston & @UHLAW grad. All Houston sports. Abogado.
Joined May 2012
In response to Hurricane Harvey, the Texas Legislature created the @ResilientTX at @TAMU Galveston to provide policy makers with data analytics and research to make informed decisions pre-disaster. #txlege.
Today in 2017, Hurricane Harvey makes landfall south of Houston, as a category 4 hurricane, producing catastrophic flooding totalling 51” and 36 deaths in Harris County. #houwx.
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UTMB lost $19 million in NIH research grants after Trump administration cuts. #txlege.
houstonchronicle.com
The University of Texas Medical Branch lost more than $19 million in research grants terminated by the Trump administration.
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Children in Houston, TX going hungry per this @RiceKinderInst study. We had item in TX budget to alleviate children going hungry in summers but it was only item in budget Abbott vetoed. #txlege
houstonchronicle.com
In one neighborhood, 80% of residents reported uncertain or unstable access to nutritious food.
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Texas Rep. Armando Walle: The redistricting fight isn't over. #txlege
houstonchronicle.com
Were we willing to engage in a partisan effort to neutralize Trump’s racially divisive plan? Yes, we were.
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Justice Dept. declines to defend grants for Hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional. #txlege.
houstonchronicle.com
The Trump administration says it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding...
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Texas House passes Trump redistricting plan, setting up showdown with California. #txlege.
houstonchronicle.com
The new map, ordered up by President Donald Trump and endorsed by Gov. Greg Abbott, would wipe out five Democrat-held congressional districts
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Got to make it to Mando’s scrimmage against Cy Fair today. Mean Green! @STRAKEJESUITFB #txlege
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‘Taking away food is taking away everything’: Texans brace for SNAP cuts – Houston Public Media #txlege
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Changes to SNAP requirements and cuts in funding to the program were signed into law July 4 by President Trump as part of the massive tax-and-spending package known as the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The...
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"We thought we were in the driver's seat, especially when the lieutenant governor and the speaker included (Summer EBT) in the final budget," Walle said. Read more about Summer EBT, the only line-item vetoed in the budget, from @RepWalle & our director:.
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Redistricting before flood relief efforts on floor this week. The only call on House, meaning members compelled to get permission slips & DPS trooper detail to compel attendance, is for HD4, Redistricting Bill that racially gerrymanders our only Latino seat in Harris Co. #txlege.
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Thank you Chicago, Illinois and @GovPritzker for your welcoming of @TexasHDC as we spread the word across the nation of Trump’s unconstitutional stealing of Texas Congressional seats. #txlege
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$2 million for a Hill Country flood warning system? Gov. Abbott, get it done. | Editorial. #txlege.
houstonchronicle.com
Houston’s flood warning systems and infrastructure shows that flood deaths are not inevitable.
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