AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican speaker of the Texas House abandoned efforts Friday to keep his powerful post in the face of unrelenting pressure from the party's hard right and anger over ...

Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas ... bid for speaker carries the risk of a full loss of power, with the possibility of being relegated to the background under a Cook-led House.

Two Republican representatives that initially did not vote for Johnson made a last-minute switch to support him and avoid a ...

After a Republican Texas ... post. Burrows, a top lieutenant to outgoing Speaker Dade Phelan during the two terms the Beaumont Republican ran the chamber, is contrasting his 10-year service in the ...

Seeking to step up grassroots pressure in the increasingly contentious race for Texas ... speaker's race. Instead, the county Republican party issued a statement endorsing Burrow's bid to lead the ...

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and ...

Five years ago, Rep. Dustin Burrows’ reputation sustained a major blow among his House colleagues. The Lubbock Republican resigned as chair of the House GOP Caucus after it was revealed that he ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican speaker of the Texas House abandoned efforts Friday to keep his powerful post in the face of unrelenting pressure from the party’s hard right and anger over the ...

This time, however, Burrows’ bid for speaker ... the House last year, with a voting record farther to the left than all but 11 out of 84 total Republicans. “If we think about the Texas House ...