Christian Menefee

Christian Menefee won a special election runoff Saturday to fill a seat that's been open since Sylvester Turner died last March.

representation, had a voice in Congress.

That district is in and around Houston, represented by a Democrat since 1973.

Menefee is a former attorney for Harris County.

The Republicans' House majority now stands at 218-214, meaning they can afford no more than one defection on a party-line vote.

Chris Foster, Fox News.

I would not be voting for funding for DHS.

What we've seen is the president and Nome radicalize an agency.

I believe very deeply that we should not allow ICE to do what it's been doing.

And I look forward to one of my early votes being to do everything I can to block additional funding.

I believe very deeply that we should not allow ICE to do what it's been doing.

In Houston, we are a community of immigrants, folks from so many countries who participate in our economy, who run small businesses, who do fantastic work.

And we believe in recognizing their dignity and their humanity.

Somewhere...

In the 18th Congressional District, there's an immigrant who's terrified that ICE, masked ICE agents, are gonna kick in their door and take them back to a land that they haven't been for a very long time.

And that's how you know that when I go into Congress, I'm gonna fight each and every day to impeach Kristi Noem, to tear ICE up from the roots,

and to fix this country's broken immigration system.

President Trump, my message to you is this.

You've gone nearly a year without hearing from the people of the 18th Congressional District of Texas.

The results here tonight are a mandate for me to work as hard as I can to oppose your agenda,