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.

Or whether, instead, wildfires are permitted to burn out of control.

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 ...

No GOP strongholds are projected to lose seats. Florida and Texas are projected to pick up four seats each. Arizona, Idaho, ...

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

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

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 ...