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Thomas Cao

Professor Jamey Crane

GOVT 2305

June 20, 2017

With a zip code of 77072, this area is known as Texas’ 9th Congressional District. While

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two Senators of this district are John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, the House of Representatives is none

other than Al Green (Full Biography).

As an African-American male who’s a Democratic representative of Texas and member

of Congress, Alexander N. Green has served for 12 years in the House at the age of 69 (Al

Green). Being an unmarried Baptist with an Undergraduates Degree and Juris Doctor Degree

from law school, Green is an active member of the Financial Service Committee. This committee

consists of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Monetary Policy and Trade, and

Oversight and Investigations, which are the subcommittees (Full Biography). Throughout

Green’s service, he’s received numerous amounts of awards and achievements for his success.

Green has obtained the Texas Association of REALTORS Legacy Award, Texas Black

Democrats’ Profiles of Courage Award, AFL-CIO MLK Drum Major Award for Service, Ebony

Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Black People, and the NAACP Mickey Leland Humanitarian

Award from both the Houston and Fort bend NAACP branches (Full Biography). Al Green has

made his mark towards the community of African-Americans and Texas’ 9th Congressional

District.

65 year old John Cornyn, is an American Republican Senator for the state of Texas

(Cornyn). Present since 2002, Cornyn has been serving for 15 years (Cornyn) as Senator and

chairman & member of the Committee on Finance, Committee on the Judiciary, and Committee

on Intelligence (About John Cornyn). For his personal life, being affiliated with

Nondenominational Christianity (Wormald), Cornyn is the father of two daughters and is

currently married to his wife Sandy Cornyn (Cornyn). The US Senator enrolled in three different

schools which he then obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Juris Doctor from law school,

and a Master of Laws degree (Cornyn). Throughout Cornyn’s years of service, he’s acquired

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numerous awards from different organizations being: Border Texan of the Year Award,

Children’s Champion Award from the National Child Support Enforcement Association, the

Friend of Farm Bureau Award from the American Farm Bureau Federation, Fighter for Free

Enterprise Award from the Texas Association of Businesses, Guardian of Small Business Award

from the National Federation of Independent Businesses, Latino Leadership Award from the

National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, International Leadership Legislative

Award from the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce, and the James

Madison Award (Cornyn). John Cornyn received these awards and achievements based on his

success as Senator.

The other American Republican Senator of Texas is Ted Cruz (Mead). Although he has

only served for 4 years at the age of 46 (Mead), Cruz has membership to multiple committees

such as, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Committee on the

Judiciary, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Rules and Administration

while either being a chairman or just a member for them (Sen). US Senator Ted Cruz is the father

to two daughters and the husband to Heidi Cruz who are all Baptists (Meet Ted). Since Cruz has

not served as Senator for a long period of time, he has not yet been awarded during his term.

Though he’s made multiple achievements in school from his excellent debating skills where he

obtained a bachelor's degree and graduated at Harvard Law School afterwards (Mead).

Based on my personal opinion and knowledge of the achievements and services of both

two senators and house, they have made a contribution to my own district and Texas itself. Green

made many contributions towards the African American community of my district from his acts.

In doing so, from a scale from 1-10, Green would receive a 7 since many of his notable

accomplishments were mainly dealing with the Black community. Cornyn contributed to many

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different factors which acquired him many awards. In his case, Cornyn would receive an 8 as a

result for serving for 15 years with numerous achievements during his term. Although Cruz has

not received any awards yet, he is still serving in multiple committees which contributes to my

district and Texas in such ways. For now, Cruz would obtain a representation of 3 because of his

length of serving and contributions. I have learned who the two US Senators of Texas and the

House of Representatives of my district are and brief biographies of them, showing their

contributions to many organizations, Texas, and my own district.

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Works Cited

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� � "Find Your Representative." United States House of Representatives. N.p., n.d. Web. 22

June 2017. � � "Full Biography." Full Biography | Congressman Al Green. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 June 2017. � � "Al Green." NNDB. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 June 2017. � � Cornyn, Senator John. "About John." John Cornyn. N.p., 09 July 2013. Web. 24 June

2017. � � "About John Cornyn." United States Senator John Cornyn, Texas. N.p., 05 Apr. 2017.

Web. 24 June 2017. � � Wormald, Benjamin. "Members of Congress: Religious Affiliations." Pew Research

Center's Religion & Public Life Project. N.p., 05 Jan. 2015. Web. 24 June 2017. � � Cornyn, Senator John. "About John Cornyn." John Cornyn. N.p., 10 July 2013. Web. 24

June 2017. � � Mead, Wendy. "Ted Cruz." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 16 May 2017.

Web. 24 June 2017. � � "Meet Ted." Ted Cruz for Senate. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 June 2017. � � "Sen. Ted Cruz." GovTrack.us. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 June 2017.

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