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Bickering Texas Lawmakers Reach Redistricting Deal -- and GOP Likely Wins.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003

The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 9--AUSTIN, Texas--After nearly six months of give, take, punch and counterpunch, exhausted House and Senate negotiators finally reached a deal Thursday on redrawing congressional boundaries so Republicans can win more seats next year.

The breakthrough u termed "an agreement in principle" u came on Wednesday after personal intervention by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as lawmakers settled the nettlesome question of how to remap West Texas.

The plan appeared to meet the one overriding desire of all the Republicans involved: It probably has the votes to pass, over the angry opposition of Democrats, who stand to lose control of the state's congressional delegation....

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