A ruling by a federal judge on Monday thrust abortion politics and Texas back into the national spotlight.
Joe Straus
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Energy
Straus Urges El Paso Voters to Support Prop 6
Republican House Speaker Joe Straus stopped in El Paso on Monday to continue his statewide push for Prop 6, a ballot initiative that would tap into the state’s savings account to finance a water development bank.
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State Government
TribuneFest: A Conversation With Joe Straus
Full video of Jay Root’s one-on-one with Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, at the 2013 Texas Tribune Festival.
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Criminal Justice
Liveblog: Keynote Speakers at The Texas Tribune Festival
We liveblogged The 2013 Texas Tribune Festival’s Keynote track, which included conversations with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and state Sen. Wendy Davis, a talk on the Tea Party’s goals and a session on efforts to turn Texas blue. Read the highlights here.
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State Government
Speaker’s Original Band of 11 Shrinks to a Quartet
Joe Straus became speaker of the Texas House with the help of a relatively small group of Republicans who rebelled against a sitting speaker. Less than five years later, only four of them are left.
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State Government
Polling Center: Joe Straus and the Other Republicans
Many statewide Republican candidates are running to the right to position themselves for the primaries, but the Speaker of the House enjoys a rarified position: An office with statewide reach that doesn’t appear on the statewide ballot.
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Transportation
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
Texas legislators might eventually get the transportation funding bill the governor asked them for, but it’s not the stuff parades are made of: They’ve already blown two chances.
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State Government
The Brief: July 31, 2013
Pleas from lawmakers failed to ward off an immediate third special session on transportation.
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State Government
Perry Calls Third Special Session, Focuses on Transportation Funding
UPDATED: Just over an hour after lawmakers ended their second 30-day special session of the year, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday called lawmakers back for a third one, with transportation funding the only issue on the agenda.
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Health care
Straus: Perry Crossed Line on Davis Comments
One of the most powerful Republicans in Texas, House Speaker Joe Straus, said Friday that Gov. Rick Perry’s controversial remarks about Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis were inappropriate and damaging to the GOP brand.