Two South Texas Democrats in Congress joined all House Republicans on Tuesday in voting to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports from elementary school to college. U.S.

Texas has a powerful new House speaker after years of escalating Republican infighting. Dustin Burrows won the job on Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON — Former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, vowed to make the agency more muscular while keeping its work apolit ...

LEANDER — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ... elect Donald Trump and GOP gains at the state and congressional levels. The ...

Becoming speaker requires a majority vote from House members. Currently, the Texas House consists of 150 members. In January, ...

Four new members of Texas’ congressional delegation were sworn into office on Jan. 3, which marked the beginning of the 119th ...

Lippe For The Texas Tribune, Emil T ... Burrows, of Lubbock, and his main opponent in the race, fellow Republican Rep. David Cook of Mansfield, have been in an increasingly acrimonious political ...

The election results were certified on Jan ... She is the first openly gay member of the Texas congressional delegation and the first openly gay member of Congress from the South.