The House this week passed a $210 billion, two-year budget. Action on the only legislation required each session now heads to the Senate, where different funding priorities are in play.
The House this week passed a $210 billion, two-year budget. Action on the only legislation required each session now heads to the Senate, where different funding priorities are in play.
In an unusual, strongly worded report, a Travis County grand jury recommended this week that University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall be removed from office but did not hand down an indictment against the controversial regent.
A scathing investigative report of the Health and Human Services Commission's $20 million deal for fraud tracking software revealed "operational defects" within the agency's procurement process.
A week after his entry into the presidential race, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he's raised about $4 million over those eight days. Also, he registered in double digits — 13 percent — in the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll and in the "top tier" of GOP hopefuls in a Public Policy Polling survey.
The city of McAllen, Houston Community College and Texas A&M University have applied to host a presidential or vice presidential debate in 2016, organizers announced Wednesday.
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