GOP efforts to create a new conservative congressional district in Corpus Christi could result in the Rio Grande Valley losing its two experienced U.S. House members, Solomon Ortiz and Rubén Hinojosa. That was one of the scenarios painted by Texas House members Wednesday.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has had talks with the FBI about the agency beefing up its surveillance of wire transfers going to drug cartels in Mexico. According to an investigation by the Washington Post, no more than one percent of all cash going south to the cartels is captured.

The chair of the Texas Border Coalition’s workforce development committee has praised the work of the Texas House Committee on Border and Intergovernmental Relations. Blas Castaneda testified at a hearing the committee held in Austin on Friday.