AUSTIN (Talk1370.com) -- U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett says he'll run for the newly created 37th Congressional district in 2022, as he aims to win re-election to a fifteenth term in the House of Representatives.
Doggett made the announcement Monday afternoon in front of Bryker Woods Elementary School in central Austin. It's the same place he launched his first congressional campaign back in 1994.
“What I’m doing today is submitting my application for another two years of service,” said Doggett.
The new District 37 is one of two Congressional districts that Texas is gaining after the 2020 Census. The map approved by the Texas Legislature puts the district over much of the City of Austin, west of Interstate 35, in a district that is likely to be significantly Democrat.
If Doggett wins re-election in the new district, it would be the fourth district he's represented in Congress.