Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows directed lawmakers to study the secession of New Mexico counties to Texas, the development ...

Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock is squabbling with Attorney General Ken Paxton, but it’s a primary-fallout fight among party ...

Guess where he’s ending up.

Texas District 1 Republican Senator Bryan Hughes has been named to the newly-created Senate Select Committee on Religious Liberty. The committee was created by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, and will be ...

Most Americans, and most Texans, are exhausted by the way our political leaders practice politics. The mean-spirited, ...

Dan Patrick has released committee assignments, naming State Sen. Kevin Sparks chair of the Committee on Natural Resources.

State Senator Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) has been named chair of the Sunset Advisory Commission and re-appointed chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. State Senator Lois ...

The upset winner of a special election in a GOP-leaning district was not assigned to any committees of the upper chamber.

Dan Patrick of “petty, partisan politics” Monday after the newly elected senator was left off a list of influential ...

After flipping a deep-red North Texas Senate seat earlier this year, the chamber's newest Democrat says he's already getting ...

The lieutenant governor of Texas appointed his own state version of the panel. and named as chair of a well-known Republican ...