Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has said the chamber will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) to move ahead with ...

Texas state Democrats had been plotting their departure for weeks. But most weren’t sure they were going—or where they were ...

Gov. Greg Abbott previously asked the court to expel Rep. Gene Wu, the House Democratic leader. Paxton disputed the ...

More than 50 Texas Democratic legislators left the state to block a GOP effort to redraw congressional lines. Abbott said ...

CHICAGO - More than 50 Democratic House members left the state, keeping the Republican-led House from moving forward with a ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues to push Democratic lawmakers to return to the state, threatening legal action in Texas and ...

After the Texas House failed to make a quorum on Tuesday, Texas Democrats were told to return to Austin by Friday​ or face ...

Both Texas Republicans and Democrats are ratcheting up their rhetoric over proposed US House maps that could give the GOP ...

As President Trump’s deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Friday, the prospect of the leaders meeting in ...

The Texas House again failed to reach a quorum today as some Democrats refused to return to the House amid their bid to block Republicans’ redistricting efforts. The House will reconvene Monday and ...

The push to redraw Texas’ congressional maps outside the normal 10-year cycle follows a push by President Donald Trump’s ...

Texas and California — the two most populous U.S. states — are the leading actors in a back-and-forth push to remake the ...