Secretary of State Jane Nelson, a former lawmaker who served in the Texas Senate for 30 years, shared advice and words of ...

MAGA’s cruelty toward immigrants and its disregard for civil liberties are on full display in the Lone Star State.

State representatives David Cook (R-Mansfield) and Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) have been campaigning neck-and-neck to secure ...

Every legislative session, the 150-member Texas House of Representatives votes on which of them will ... grew up in Lubbock ...

Last week’s election of state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, as speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, while maintaining a certain status quo, stands to be one of the most monumental in ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House of Representatives elected State Rep. Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) as Speaker of the House on Tuesday after two rounds of voting. Burrows' major contender ...

The choice of speaker, made by all 150 members of the Texas House, will set the course of the 2025 legislative session and ...

Tom Craddick, R-Midland, assumed the post in 2003 as the first GOP House speaker in 130 years. As the state ... representatives’ legislative expense accounts. Karen Brooks Harper has covered ...

Texas’ population is booming and there is not enough water for everyone. State Sen. Charles Perry hopes to fix that. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the ...

Every two years all 150 members of the Texas House of Representatives meet in Austin to discuss, amend, and vote on hundreds of thousands of policies that will shape our state’s future.