On the first day of the 89th Legislature, a coalition of Republican and Democratic legislators elected GOP state Rep. Dustin Burrows as speaker of the Texas House ... round of voting, 71 House ...
In the month run-up to the Speaker vote, relationships were tested within the Republican party ... Texas Election Code’s provision violates the party’s First Amendment freedom of association ...
Speaker Vote Fallout - A contentious vote ends a months-long battle that divided Texas lawmakers. In the end, Lubbock Republican Dustin Burrows won the vote for House Speaker. But some of ...
Far-right conservatives took a loss in Tuesday’s vote for speaker of Texas’ House of Representatives. But the story of the day, from my vantage point, was the scenes of Christian extremism that ...