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

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

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

Abbott’s one-hour address will begin at 5 p.m. and will be broadcast to potentially more than 25 million Texans.

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

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

While new House rules prevent Democrats from leading committees, it increases the power of the vice-chair position which will still give Democrats some say in legislation.

"This may be the first time in our nation’s history where the minority party openly elected the speaker of a legislative ... and banning Critical Race Theory in higher education. Texas Democratic ...

Texas GOP Representative-elect Shelley Luther wrote on X: "Today, the RINO (anti-MAGA) Establishment laughed in the faces of our Republican grassroots. They chose Democrat chairs and Lobbyist buddies ...

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.

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