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Texas House bans Democrats from committee chairmanships

Texas House Democrats lose top committee posts but keep some power in a move that rankles far right

Although Democrats will be prohibited from chairing the main legislative committees, the chamber voted to expand the powers they can have as vice chairs.

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Texas GOP votes to ban Democrats from chairing House committees

Texas House Republicans have passed a measure banning Democrats from chairing committees, achieving a key party goal that has sparked sharp partisan divisions in the state legislature.

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Here's why the Texas House cut tradition of giving committee chairmanships to minority party

The proposed House rules would, however, require committee vice chairmanships to be given to minority party members, who are outnumbered 88-62.

1st school voucher program proposal filed in Texas Senate

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Texas Senate school voucher proposal would give students $10,000 for private schooling

The Texas Senate is proposing $1 billion annually for a school voucher program. Sen. Brandon Creighton has now filed SB 2. Here's what's proposed.

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Texas border, school vouchers and a possible THC ban: TWITP

FOX 7 Austin's chief political reporter Rudy Koski and our panel of analysts take a look at the top stories in Texas politics from this week.

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First school voucher program proposal filed in Texas Senate

AUSTIN, Texas — Texans are getting their first look at a bill lawmakers hope to pass this legislative session to create a school voucher program. School vouchers are a high priority issue for Texas Republican leaders, and lawmakers filed their formal proposal in the Senate Friday morning.

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Texas Ethics Commission dismisses complaint against state GOP chair, lawmaker says

Rep. Cody Harris had accused Abraham George of improperly threatening to send mailers and censure lawmakers who backed Rep.

How Texas GOP activists are planning to take ‘spiritual jurisdiction' over Legislature

The Texas Republican Party has embraced a new class of evangelical conservatives whose goalposts continue to move further ...

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Texas has a powerful new House speaker in a blow to the GOP’s hard right

Texas has a powerful new House speaker after years of escalating Republican infighting. Dustin Burrows won the job on Tuesday ...

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Anti-Immigration Hard-Liners in the Texas GOP Are Putting on a Show

That shift may come, but it hasn’t yet. The ambiguity is a cause for optimism, for the Texas business class and the faction of the Republican Party that will quietly acknowledge that the state ...

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Texas Wants $11 Billion Back From the Government

Greg Abbott has requested $11.1 billion from the federal government to reimburse his state for its border security operations ...

Blue Texas county turned red says Democrats were a 'disaster'

Locals in Starr County, TX share the reasons they believe their border town flipped to the GOP after centuries of voting Democrat since the year 1800.

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, senior Republican lawmakers say Texas should clarify abortion ban

Patrick is the first major Republican official in Texas to say he supports clarifying the state's near-total abortion ban ...

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