The way the Texas House and most other legislative bodies operate, members can't just get up on the chamber floor and start ...

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

The Texas House kicked off the 2025 session by electing an establishment Republican to lead the chamber, drawing criticism ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows navigates bipartisan tightrope with the adoption of new rules governing committees in his ...

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

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

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role.

Rep. David Cook of Mansfield, as someone who wouldn’t give them a voice in the chamber. Cooperation among the competing parties has been a longstanding tradition in the Texas House, something ...

New Texas House rules passed on Thursday prevent members of the minority party from holding influential committee chair ...

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In a dramatic two-ballot vote Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock clinched the title of speaker of the ...

A life-size statue of Tom and Nadine Craddick was unveiled at Midland International Air and Space Port, celebrating their ...