The election of Rep. Dustin Burrows as Texas House speaker with help from Democrats has many Republicans crying foul.

With America’s population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from reliably Democratic states to areas ...

Representatives Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar are facing backlash after supporting a trans-athlete ban. The two voted ...

The vote suggested that a period of political warfare between G.O.P. factions would continue to shape lawmaking in the state.

The Texas Legislature meets every two years to introduce bills that it hopes will become law. Over 1,636 house bills have ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who heads the Texas Senate, opposed Burrows’ run for Speaker. He has since released a statement saying ...

The new speaker’s power over the budget and committee assignments is expected to bolster established Republican leaders and ...

Texas Christians in the House voted against oil billionaires Wilks and Dunn's religiously conservative brand of politics.

Texas Democratic Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar both sided with the Republican majority, and North Carolina ...

From debating school vouchers and improving the state’s water supply to reining in property taxes, the GOP-led body will look ...

The 89th Texas legislative session commenced today with a surprising turn of events as Republican Dustin Burrows from Lubbock ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually ...