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

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

Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, both of Texas, were the only Democrats to side with Republicans on Tuesday to pass ...

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

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

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power ...

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

Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. With America’s population shifting to ...

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

A heated meeting of the House Oversight Committee erupted into chaos on Tuesday when Republican Nancy Mace challenged ...

Burrow’s win was an assertion of the chamber’s longstanding independence, and it set up another session of likely clashes ...