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It's easy to see how demoralizing it can be for Democrats in the Texas Legislature. Greatly outnumbered by Republicans, they ...
A procedural rule gave Senate Democrats a window to block a slate of Texas GOP bills, a rarity in the Republican-controlled ...
Chiseling away at President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Rolling back the green energy tax breaks central to President ...
Republican Dustin Burrows emerged from his first legislative session wielding the gavel with a laundry list of new ...
Texas Democrats are starting to sound like the ... chamber to protect their majority — which they lost on Tuesday. The minority party also lost ground in the Legislature where Republicans ...
The 89th Texas Legislative Session concluded with 31 new state representatives completing their first 140 days in office, ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ... Sawyer Hackett, a Democratic strategist who works for various Texas Democratic clients, told ABC News on Monday that the seat vacancy comes "at a time ...
Blocking constitutional amendments is one of the last bits of leverage Texas Democrats have left after House Republicans this session undid the decades-long tradition of giving the minority party ...
Republican lawmakers alleged a “money laundering” scheme funneling taxpayer dollars to Democratic officials. Democrats ...
Although Democrats have long been a minority of the Texas House, they have had some influence on the edges of issues. They managed to stop some Republican budget measures and are blocking ...
Critics of the new map call it “racial gerrymandering,” while proponents say the new map’s purpose is to strengthen ...