New Texas House rules passed on Thursday prevent members of the minority party from holding influential committee chair ...
Pat McIntyre, College Station Utilities Energy Coordinator, visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia about the recent cold weather, ...
House on Thursday voted to ban members of the minority party from leading committees, achieving a major goal for conservative ...
Texas lawmakers are looking to spend billions of dollars over the next two years to create a school voucher-like program, cut property taxes, raise teacher pay, shore up water infrastructure ...
These people normally don’t support state funds going to special interest groups, but they do in this case. Vouchers are also ...
The newly elected Texas House Speaker, Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock), is well positioned to bring school choice to Texas and achieve other long sought conservative goals.
A key part is the requirement that the GOP House Caucus demanded. Committee Chairs are to be members from the majority party ...
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.
The Texas House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to ban Democrats from holding powerful committee chairmanships, answering years of mounting pressure from leadership and grassroots conservatives to chip ...
Although Democrats will be prohibited from chairing the main legislative committees, the chamber voted to expand the powers ...