The Legislature has two chambers — the 150-member House of Representatives and the 31-member Senate. Everyone in Texas is ...

Texas Representative Al Green, ranking member of a House subcommittee on oversight and investigations, criticized US ...

Dustin Burrows decides the next Speaker of the Texas House Of Representatives ... and our community of members, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions ...

The way the Texas House and most other legislative bodies operate, members can't just get up on the chamber floor and start making a fuss over things they don't like. Instead, they follow a ...

Texas Democrats in Congress warned tariffs could hurt shoppers and jack up prices, while GOP members said they could curb ...

Welcome to our guide to the 89th Regular Legislative session. We’ll walk you through who makes up the Legislature, how laws are passed and what to expect.

While new House rules prevent Democrats from leading committees, it increases the power of the vice-chair position which will ...

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

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

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

A vote of 85 in favor of State Rep. Dustin Burrows decides the next Speaker of the Texas House Of Representatives on the first day of the 2025 Texas Legislature in Austin on Tuesday, Jan. 14 ...