The Texas Legislature is looking more like the U.S. Congress. Last week the Republican-controlled state House approved new ...

New Texas House rules passed on Thursday prevent members of the minority party from holding influential committee chair ...

Although Democrats will be prohibited from chairing the main legislative committees, the chamber voted to expand the powers ...

The proposed House rules would, however, require committee vice chairmanships to be given to minority party members, who are ...

Conservative activists in the GOP caucus called any power sharing with the minority party a betrayal of Republican voters.

Texas Democratic state House Rep. Mihaela Plesa, who handily won reelection in a traditionally Republican stronghold, gave the Democratic Party advice on how to rebound from bruising losses during ...

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.

(LARRY PROVART/Staff Photographer) His 1976 victory over Gerald Ford in Texas signaled the last gasp for a Lone Star Democratic Party already on the ropes. In 1968, Richard Nixon’s southern ...

Under Texas law, only voters ages 65 and older may vote by mail without providing an excuse. The Texas Democratic Party and several voters went to federal court this spring to try to change that rule ...

Democrats say the the decision by Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Lawrence Meyers to leave the Republican Party gives them something to build on for the 2014 elections. But GOP officials see no ...

Will Texas House Republicans face censure following Speaker vote? Can they legally be removed from primary ballot?

Accusations of self-dealing and defamation have flown between the Arizona Democratic Party's chair, Yolanda Bejarano, and ...