Read full article: Houston lawmakers share priorities for Texas’ 89th Legislative session The 89th Texas Legislative Session is now underway, with lawmakers officially sworn in and a new Speaker ...

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Rep. Dustin Burrows easily wins the election for Texas House speaker. Plus, a look at all of the sights and sounds at the Capitol on the first day of the 89 th legislative session.

Here's what we know about the start of the 89th Texas Legislature today: Lawmakers are facing a number of influential issues... but first, the state has to decide who the Speaker of the House will be.

The three-term Republican is heading into his sixth legislative session as Texas' chief executive officer with the wind at his back. Abbott was not on the November ballot, but he can still put ...

The Texas House is broken. Aside from any process critiques, it’s broken because its membership is deeply fractured with largely irreconcilable worldviews, the most divided the lower chamber has been ...

Challenges to 89th Texas legislature Lawmakers are back in Austin for the 89th Texas legislature, and a lot of the same concerns from two years ago are going to be back on the block this time ...