Lubbock Rep. Dustin Burrows, newly elected Speaker of the Texas House, announced the first members of his senior staff on ...
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who heads the Texas Senate, opposed Burrows’ run for Speaker. He has since released a statement saying ...
State representative Mary Gonzalez and state senator César Blanco told me they plan to keep working together to address the needs of El Paso. "We're all here for the same reason," newly-elected State ...
The unusually public battle to helm the Texas House divided both Democratic and Republican lawmakers between Rep. Dustin ...
The 89th Texas legislative session commenced today with a surprising turn of events as Republican Dustin Burrows from Lubbock ...
The new speaker’s power over the budget and committee assignments is expected to bolster established Republican leaders and ...
The 89th legislative session began Tuesday with members of the Texas House voting for their new speaker after a month-long ...
Burrow’s win was an assertion of the chamber’s longstanding independence, and it set up another session of likely clashes ...
The new speaker will have a dramatic impact on the direction of this year’s lawmaking — and potentially the future of the ...