[Solitar]

The question was about the provision for Texas to be five states -- and that WAS a condition granted by Congress for the admission of Texas -- that it could, without having to go back to Congress again, have four more Texan states admitted (probably West Texas, East Texas, South Texas, North Texas and Travis County/Austin).

The ten Federal Regions were first established by President Nixon in 1972 with Executive Order 11647 which was reimplemented by President Carter (Executive Order 12314) and revoked by Reagan in 1983 with Executive Order 12407. Now Obama is re-establishing them formally from the highest level.

These ten federal regions are not new under Obama. They originally were for the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, HEW, HUD, Transportation, Energy, EPA, GSA, FEMA, SBA, OPM, CSA, and Corps of Engineers (see the above link for Carter's order). Most of those agencies still use those regions for internal organization -- for going on forty years now (since Nixon started them in 1972)

[bigoil]

Why hasn’t Texas broken into five states if they have that power?

Ten conservative Senators and a bunch of Representatives could be a game changer today.

Not many people know about this and I would love to see Barry’s head explode when a bunch of new Texas congressional representatives show up in the District of Corruption to take their seats.