 And as for being a vice presidential nominee, J.D. Vance said social conservatives will have a seat at the GOP table and always will. He made that in reference to some within the GOP disappointed that the abortion issue was not brought front and center at this week's convention. Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has died. The long-serving, often outspoken Democrat was diagnosed just last month with pancreatic cancer, after which she wrote in a statement,