The new speaker of the 150-member Texas House said, downplays criticism from conservatives and says he's optimistic about the ...

House Speaker Dustin Burrows sits down with FOX 7's Rudy Koski to talk about property tax cuts, school choice and the future ...

Texas Rep. Jon Rosenthal (D-Houston) offered his condolences to Turner early Wednesday morning. "He was a dear friend and an ...

A majority of registered voters polled, 63%, support a proposal to create Texas’ first Education Savings Account program, ...

What they’re all screaming about is, ‘We want regulation, but we want it the way we want it.'” By Jasper Scherer, The Texas ...

Texas is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades, as cases have jumped from two to 146 in just one month.

He was two months into his first term representing Texas’ 18th Congressional District, the seat long occupied by Turner’s political ally, former U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

Turner, a Democrat, was sworn into his first term in the U.S. House in January. U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, was the former ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Dustin Burrows earned the gavel on the first ... The Republican from Lubbock is the new leader of the Texas House. He defeated two other challengers, one Republican ...

The measles outbreak in Texas has led to a rise in confirmed cases, reaching 124, and the Lubbock health department reported at least 67 people getting the MMR vaccine at their drive-up clinic; ...

U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former two-term mayor of Houston, died Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., the Houston Chronicle ...