{"id":1190852,"date":"2023-01-03T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1190852"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:07:54","slug":"first-new-congressman-in-18-years-to-be-sworn-in-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1190852","title":{"rendered":"Moran awaits swearing-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — The U.S. Congress began its new term Tuesday, but Nathaniel Moran will have to wait to become Texas District 1’s first new congressman in 18 years. Such action cannot be taken until a new speaker of the House is chosen, and that didn’t happen Tuesday. Moran, a former Smith County judge, won the seat in November by a wide margin. Once he takes office, what will be his top priorities? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The recession of the economy and border security by far are the top two issues people want us to address in Congress,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Moran, on election night of 2022. Local party leaders said the Republican congressman has to be ready to hit the ground running. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It has to be determined which committee he gets on and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really gonna dictate a lot of what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be able to push forward as a freshman legislature,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Smith County Republican Party Chair David Stein.<\/p>\n

Democrats said Moran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s priorities should be for all. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All we can hope for is now is that he will play a more bipartisan role and represent all the people not just lean whether its far right or centralist or more to the left,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Smith County Democratic Party Chair, Hector Garza. Both parties believe he has strong qualities. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unflappable, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strategic, he understands what hill to die on and what hill not to die on in Washington D.C. and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty important,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Stein. Moran is an East Texas native and instrumental in the growth of Smith County since he was appointed judge is 2016. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Moran is a fighter, he really is and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen him for many years and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen him push agendas across and I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really going to fit right in and I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to pick up and run with the ball,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Garza.<\/p>\n

Stein and Garza hope to see East Texas as the only priority for him. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hope he pushes for the people. Education, infrastructure, our homeless people here in Tyler and in East Texas. I hope he helps us find a solution to it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Garza. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Temptations are greater, the pressure is greater. I just suspect deep down nobody is going to knock him off his foundation of faith,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Stein. Moran is one out of 75 new members of Congress due to be sworn in once a speaker is selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — The U.S. Congress began its new term Tuesday, but Nathaniel Moran will have to wait to become Texas District 1’s first new congressman in 18 years. Such action cannot be taken until a new speaker of the House is chosen, and that didn’t happen Tuesday. Moran, a former Smith County judge, won the … Continue reading Moran awaits swearing-in<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1190855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/NathanielMoran-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"First new congressman in 18 years to be sworn in Tuesday","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 11:52:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/NathanielMoran-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"First new congressman in 18 years to be sworn in Tuesday","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190852"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191037,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190852\/revisions\/1191037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}