Gov. Greg Abbott still hasn't scheduled a special election to fill the vacant seat for San Antonio's 23rd Congressional District, leaving the area unrepresented as it emerges as ground zero in the screwworm crisis.

The district's U.S. House seat has been vacant for 60 days since the resignation of scandal-plagued Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales.

Sign up The first case of the parasitic New World Screwworm was detected June 3 in a three-week-old calf in La Pryor, a town in the 23rd.