November 2025
Former U.S. Rep. Chris Bell joins Texas Democrats seeking to unseat Gov. Greg Abbott
"Bell on Tuesday slammed the school voucher program Abbott championed... 'Greg Abbott has never and will never have the same commitment to teachers or to public school students that I will'..."
— The Texas Tribune
November 2025
Another Democrat joins the race for Texas governor in 2026
"Bell, 65, is running in the March 3 Democratic primary in a field that includes state Rep. Gina Hinojosa of Austin, Houston businessman Andrew White and Quitman rancher Bobby Cole.... A former Houston council member, Bell served one term in Congress (2003-2005). He was caught up in the Republican-driven 2003 redistricting effort."
— The Dallas Morning News
November 2025
Another candidate joins race for Texas governor
"Bell represented the state's 25th district in the Houston area in 2003... Bell also ran for governor in 2006 but lost to Rick Perry. In 2020 he ran in the Democratic primary to unseat US Senator John Cornyn."
— KVUE-TV (ABC)
November 2025
Greg Abbott kicks off reelection campaign with aggressive property tax relief plan
"Former U.S. Rep. Chris Bell, D-Houston, has called an Austin news conference for Monday, where he could announce a campaign for governor."
— MSN
August 2025
Public hearing on congressional redistricting map
"This is so stupid. With all of the problems and all of the challenges that we face here in the state of Texas, here we are spending so much time and so much money on something that no one in the state of Texas asked for. I've lived through mid-decade redistricting... the media used to call those of us who were targeted and taken out: 'victims'... but I assure you we were not alone, because the real victims in that process were the people of Texas who got drawn into unintelligible districts because of the bizarre nature of the lines, and lost a mountain of leadership in the [US] House of Representatives..."
— KHOU 11