DID YOU KNOW? Texas has the power to put another 8 Republicans into the US Senate?

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11. That's what the 1 March 1845 annexation law said but not what the 30 March 1870 law says.

But at the time of the 1 March 1845 annexation, Texas claimed a considerably amount of territory to the north and east of the Rio Grande, including portions of today's Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. These claims were extinguished by Congress in the Compromise of 1850, which set the northern border of the Texas panhandle at the Missouri Compromise latitude (36°30') with a proposed $10 million federal payment to the state, which was accepted. As negotiations around the Compromise of 1850 had included Congressional proposals splitting Texas into two or three states, the natural interpretation is that the 1845 language applied to the "Texas" of that time, which does not coincide with Texas today -- and that the possible reorganization of the old "Texas" (as considered in the 1845 legislation) was superseded by the Compromise of 1850 and the subsequent incorporation of the states Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, using some territory ceded by old "Texas"