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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican speaker of the Texas House abandoned efforts Friday to keep his powerful post following a bruising ... Dade Phelan said he was ending his bid to serve a ...

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 ...