A key part is the requirement that the GOP House Caucus demanded. Committee Chairs are to be members from the majority party in the House, currently Republican. But the rules state that Vice Chairs ...
While new House rules prevent Democrats from leading committees, it increases the power of the vice-chair position which will still give Democrats some say in legislation.
House Speaker Dan Hawkins for the first time Thursday provided a public explanation for his decision to remove journalists from the House floor except to take photos from the back and side walls of ...
New Texas House rules passed on Thursday prevent members of the minority party from holding influential committee chair positions. This change breaks a long-standing tradition in the chamber — and ...
Although Democrats will be prohibited from chairing the main legislative committees, the chamber voted to expand the powers ...
Conservative activists in the GOP caucus called any power sharing with the minority party a betrayal of Republican voters.
The Texas House will decide Thursday on its rules of engagement for the rest of the legislative session – a brisk battle over sensitive issues such as whether Democrats should lead committees, which ...
President Donald Trump declared that the global tax deal “has no force or effect” in the U.S. in one of a pair of new tax and ...
Republicans in the House and Senate introduced a bill Thursday called the “Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act,” upping the fight over parental rights. The goal of bill is to apply the ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson replaced Rep. Mike Turner as chair of the House Intelligence Committee with Rep. Rick Crawford, citing a desire for “fresh horses” and not directly involving ...
AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas House of Representatives is set to vote on House rules Thursday and among the considerations is to form a DOGE committee that would analyze the efficiencies in the state ...