The latest politics news from The Texas Tribune.
Mark McClellan, who ran the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under George W. Bush, will focus on reforming medical care and lowering costs. Full Story
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The state's new land commissioner is trying to put some points on the political board. He's erasing some, too. Full Story
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could have far-reaching implications for the way legislative districts in Texas — and across the country — are drawn. Full Story
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State GOP leaders, in a predictable but closely watched vote, have defeated a proposal to ask Texas voters whether they favor secession. Full Story
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Ted Cruz said here Saturday that the 2016 presidential race has entered a more serious phase following the shooting massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., and escalated his rhetoric on foreign policy with a vow to kill Islamic State terrorists. Full Story
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Ted Cruz is ramping up his appeal to voters as the strongest potential commander-in-chief in the GOP presidential field. Full Story
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday pushed back against claims that it was insensitive for him to hold a Second Amendment campaign event just days after a mass shooting under investigation as an act of terrorism. Full Story
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A special U.S. immigration policy provision allows Cubans to apply for legal residency status after living in the country for a year. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says that the provision needs another look. Full Story
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Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is officially opening a hub in Iowa for volunteers who have been recruited from Texas to pitch in for the Republican candidate in the first-in-the-country caucus state. Full Story
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Twenty-one Syrian refugees — including a dozen children — are set to be resettled next week in Dallas and Houston, according to the federal government. Texas had filed a lawsuit seeking to block the arrival of refugees from that country. Full Story
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Donald Trump's presidential campaign is putting in place an organization it hopes will to translate the massive crowds the billionaire has drawn across the state into actual votes in the March 1 primary. Full Story
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Heidi Cruz, the wife of GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz, on Thursday submitted the paperwork to get her husband on the ballot for the Texas primary. Full Story
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U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, on Thursday declared fellow GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz unelectable in a general election because of the Texas senator's stance on abortion. Full Story
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Voters used to be more sensitive to even a hint that taxpayer money might be used for political purposes: Even when it’s not criminal, it’s sleazy. Full Story
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The Obama Administration won a small but significant battle on Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court denied Texas’ request for an extra 30 days to respond to the White House’s petition for review of a controversial immigration case. Full Story
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Iowa's powerful ethanol lobby is going on the offensive against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz over his opposition to a fuel standard important to the corn-growing state, but the presidential hopeful is shooting back. Full Story
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A nonprofit organization that resettles refugees in the United States says it will move forward with the placement of Syrian refugees in Texas despite warnings from officials in the Lone Star State not to do so. Full Story
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The Texas land commissioner on Tuesday asked to joined seven North Texas families in a federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of perpetuating an “arbitrary seizure” of land along the Red River. Full Story
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday offered a spirited defense of Republicans on women's health issues, accusing Democrats of creating a phony "war on women" based on claims that his party wants to restrict access to birth control. Full Story
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The arrival of Syrian refugees in this country is less a flood than a trickle. Some 4.2 million Syrians have been displaced by the civil war; the United States has taken in a bit more than 2,200 of them. Just 24 families have been resettled in North Texas. Abdulrahman Zetoun’s family is one of them. Full Story
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