Phelan survived a bruising primary challenge earlier this year but dropped his bid to hold on ... in a recent social media post urging that “we need a Texas House Speaker chosen by a majority ...

What a great flap we have over the Texas House Speaker position. As a life-long Republican, this is giving me second thoughts. Do we really want our elected representatives plotting (out in the ...

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 ...

Because House speakers must be elected each session, the state constitution designates the Texas secretary of state as the chamber's presiding officer until a speaker is chosen. That officeholder ...