Schools Superintendent Carey Wright makes the first day of school rounds, Comptroller Brooke Lierman eyes short-term rental ...

Yet after years of holding outsize sway in Missouri politics, the Senate Freedom Caucus is down to only two members. State ...

Lawmaker has become one of the most outspoken members of his party on curbing illegal immigration and cutting federal ...

The conservative firebrand and former top aide to Sen. Ted Cruz has been a thorn in the side of Trump and Speaker Mike ...

Republican Rep. Chip Roy, an outspoken fiscal conservative known for his willingness to challenge party leadership, announced ...

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Austin has launched a bid to win the GOP nomination for attorney general. Ken Paxton, the incumbent, is campaigning against ...

"As much today as 250 years ago, criticizing the government—for taxes or anything else—is important discourse in a democratic ...

State lawmakers in Texas and California are racing toward adopting new congressional maps this week, after the Texas state ...

A person close to Rep. Nancy Mace, one of the Republican contenders in South Carolina, said: “This is first a race for an ...

Now there is a push from some Republicans to include earmarks in any possible funding legislation coming next month.

Community project funding, long shunned by deficit conservatives, is back on the menu of options to avoid a government shutdown in September.

At a Senate session last week, Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, a Democrat in Austin, stood outside the brass railing of the chamber ...