The Texas Legislature is looking more like the U.S. Congress. Last week the Republican-controlled state House approved new ...

The proposed House rules would, however, require committee vice chairmanships to be given to minority party members, who are ...

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

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.

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 ...

In what was billed the most consequential election of our time, voter turnout in Dallas County fell flat. Politicians, activists and voting rights advocates expected the presidential election to ...