After debuting on the political stage with a spirited campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett in 2010, Donna Campbell has picked her next target: veteran Republican state Sen. Jeff Wentworth.
Already, there are plenty of contested seats in the Texas Senate, with the retirement of budget guru Steve More…
Two authors of last session’s mandatory pre-abortion sonogram law, both of whom had been eyeing federal races, announced Wednesday they’ll try and take their talents back to Austin in 2013 instead.
State Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston) had been weighing his chances in the race for U.S. Senate, but announced today More…
A week after Roll Call named him the richest man in Congress, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, may be looking to make a run for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat in the upper chamber, according to reports from the Austin American-Statesman and the Texas Tribune More….
“McCaul’s team has long
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) announced today it has filed a class action lawsuit against Texas’ mandatory pre-abortion sonogram bill More…, controversial legislation that passed this session requiring women seeking abortions to undergo a sonogram at least 24 hours before the procedure (with the waiting period reduced to two
Students at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service have developed new congressional maps that are not based on incumbency or political partisanship — two major factors that typically drive the redistricting process.
Seven students enrolled in the Bush School’s Master of Public Service and Administration program More…
Gov. Rick Perry recently vetoed legislation that would have made state sales tax rules more stringent for online retailers, the Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman reported. The bill, which could be revived in the ongoing special session as it is included in a fiscal matters bill More…, was intended to
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) might be the intended target of the redistricting map submitted by Republicans, but the proposal may also entail some collateral damage — to the congressional hopes of Doggett’s Republican opponent Dr. Donna Campbell.
Campbell, who has carried on her 2010 campaign into the 2012 More…
More…School finance, healthcare costs and congressional redistricting — those are the items on Gov. Rick Perry’s to-do list for state lawmakers during this special session. But that hasn’t kept state Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston) — the author of pre-abortion sonogram legislation — from filing another abortion-related bill, this one to
