The Changing Faces of the Senate
If you find yourself reaching more often for a printed roster come next January when looking around the Senate, don't worry. You are probably not alone in doing so.
Full StoryIf you find yourself reaching more often for a printed roster come next January when looking around the Senate, don't worry. You are probably not alone in doing so.
Full StoryCruz makes some attention grabbing staff changes and a couple of Texas legislative candidates make the cut for GOP push to diversify its slate of candidates.
Full StoryThis week in Newsreel: Wendy Davis publishes her memoirs, Greg Abbott raises ethics questions. Former Bush advisor Joe Allbaugh invests in pot. Gov. Rick Perry's lawyers challenge his indictment.
Full StoryFor this week’s nonscientific survey of insiders in politics and government, we asked about the revelations of two terminated pregnancies in gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’ new book.
Full StoryKey meetings and events for the coming week.
Full StoryA Texas Governor is not Augustus traversing his realm with a portable mint and an imperial treasure in tow ... No governor can say of his or her state what the Sun King said of France: 'L'état, c'est moi.'
Attorneys for Rick Perry establishing what he is not in a motion to quash pending felony indictments against the state's chief executive
He’s not a serious challenge to Joe Straus. Don’t get confused.
Political consultant Bill Miller, discounting the significance of the endorsement by Tea Party group FreedomWorks of Scott Turner for House Speaker
It’s evaporated because the House passed a bill. The president couldn’t blame Republicans and so, lo and behold — all of a sudden — he finds the money.
U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., on the sudden lack of urgency for Congress to act on the unaccompanied minor crisis at the border
If a Republican says it, a Democrat has to disagree. And if a Democrat says it, a Republican has to disagree. And we’re in really sorry shape. Politicians are not serving you well.
Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson on the impasse on immigration and other hot button political issues
Well, I feel like Lady Godiva riding buck naked down the street. You're all out there, for everyone to see.
Ann Richards, on what it's like to pen a memoir
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis released a memoir in which she details the decision to terminate two pregnancies — one for an ectopic pregnancy and the other where the fetus had developed severe abnormalities. GOP rival Greg Abbott questioned Davis' decision to go on tour to promote the book, first asking for a ruling from the Texas Ethics Commission and then filing an ethics complaint.
Attorneys for Gov. Rick Perry on Monday made a second filing to have pending felony indictments against him dismissed. The motion to quash seeks to have the charges ruled unconstitutional.
State Rep. Charles Perry is Texas' newest state Senator. The Lubbock Republican avoided a runoff in the SD-28 special election on Tuesday, taking 53.4 percent of the vote in a six-candidate field. He succeeds Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, who resigned the seat to take over as chancellor at Texas Tech University. Perry is the second Senator chosen via special election in the past month, joining Conroe Republican Brandon Creighton.
Joe Allbaugh, a former GOP confidante to George W. Bush and Rick Perry, is now serving on the board of a marijuana lab company doing business in states where weed is legal.
Bill O’Neal of Carthage was reappointed Texas State Historian by Gov. Rick Perry for a term to expire two years from the date of his honoring ceremony.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced three senior staff changes: Chip Roy shifts from chief of staff to senior advisor with a larger role in political operations; Paul Teller, currently deputy chief of staff, takes over for Roy as chief of staff; and James Christoferson takes over as a deputy chief of staff for operations.
State Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, received his first committee assignments since being sworn in Aug. 26. He will serve on the State Affairs and Open Goverment committees as well as the joint interim committee on judicial selection.
Amanda Robertson has hired on as chief of staff for state Rep. Craig Goldman, R-Fort Worth. Her last day as legislative director for state Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Canton, is Sept. 17.
GOP HD-50 candidate Mike VanDeWalle announced two new members of his campaign team, naming Matt Mackowiak as general consultant and Dallas Reed as campaign manager.