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Six of Texas’s sharpest young debaters show off their hardware at the State Capitol Annex in Austin following the 2026 UIL Congress 1A State Championship on January 8. In this two-day competition, students step into the roles of legislators, drafting bills, debating real-world policy issues, and using parliamentary procedure to argue their positions in a mock legislative assembly.
