The Texas Legislature is looking more like the U.S. Congress. Last week the Republican-controlled state House approved new ...

The proposed House rules would, however, require committee vice chairmanships to be given to minority party members, who are ...

Although Democrats will be prohibited from chairing the main legislative committees, the chamber voted to expand the powers ...

Conservative activists in the GOP caucus called any power sharing with the minority party a betrayal of Republican voters.

But unlike Patrick, whose job is handed to him by the voters of Texas, Phelan got his chamber chief position from the House members themselves. Republicans and Democrats get an equal vote.

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas House of Representatives decided to ban members of the minority party ... calling for House Republicans to ban Democrats from being the top rank on a committee ...

After hours of testimony Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Education advanced Senate Bill 2, a school voucher bill, setting it ...

Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows raises ... Republican Party last year made the ban on Democratic chairs part of its platform, telling its members in the Capitol that supporting anything ...

Will Texas House Republicans face censure following Speaker vote? Can they legally be removed from primary ballot?

The Republican-led Texas House voted Thursday to bar Democrats from holding powerful committee chair posts, ending a longstanding tradition that members credited with fostering a bipartisan spirit ...