Old battles, new Speaker highlight opening week The Examiner (Beaumont), Jan. 15, 2009 Rep. Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton, R-Mauriceville, whose district includes Orange County, says that state lawmakers need to rally support for UTMB. "The main thing is, whatever we do, we need to get it back up and running because it does help the area - all of east Texas, not just southeast Texas - with indigent care, because the costs to the counties would double if they didn't have UTMB over there," he said. "It's very important to the whole area to get them back up, plus the research they do over there is phenomenal."