New Texas House rules passed on Thursday prevent members of the minority party from holding influential committee chair ...
The newly elected Texas House Speaker, Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock), is well positioned to bring school choice to Texas and achieve other long sought conservative goals.
While new House rules prevent Democrats from leading committees, it increases the power of the vice-chair position which will still give Democrats some say in legislation.
Conservative activists in the GOP caucus called any power sharing with the minority party a betrayal of Republican voters.
The ethics commission of the State Bar of Texas had sued Paxton for making dishonest claims of election fraud in a 2020 ...
Texas lawmakers are looking to spend billions of dollars over the next two years to create a school voucher-like program, cut property taxes, raise teacher pay, shore up water infrastructure and ...
The proposed House rules would, however, require committee vice chairmanships to be given to minority party members, who are outnumbered 88-62.
After weeks of Republican infighting and a tumultuous primary season that saw moderates face off against extremists in Texas’ ...
The state House and Senate announced their spending plans for the upcoming biennium, including funding to continue and ...
Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Republican from Lubbock, has been elected Speaker of the Texas House after a nasty fight within the ...
Democrats in the Texas House just helped elect a Republican Speaker, their leader says without any political horse-trading.