The stage was set this week for what could be a state legislative session of high drama and infighting. FOX 7 Austin's chief political reporter Rudy Koski and our panel of analysts have a look at some ...

Rep. Elise Stefanik was Trump's first Cabinet nominee as ambassador to the United Nations, but she's not up for a vote yet in ...

Several Democrats in both chambers of Congress celebrated the conservative U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New ...

A committee of the State Bar filed professional misconduct complaints against Attorney General Ken Paxton for challenging the ...

An impeachment will only proceed if it is backed by a third of House of Representatives members, and an impeached official can be removed from office by a two-thirds vote in the Senate.

The top Republican on the Senate health committee, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., faced criticism from fellow Republicans after he suggested his vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services ...

The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as Interior Secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump ... booms in states including New Mexico, Texas and North Dakota, where vast expanses of rural ...

Larry Selders, the only Baton Rouge native in the race, has held public office since 2019 as a member of the House and now he’s running for a seat in the Senate. ”I have made laws,” Selders ...

Now, with President Trump back in office, Texas has a friend in the White House," Patrick ... SB 2 passed out of the Senate Education Committee after a lengthy hearing Tuesday, and Patrick ...

In my ten years of serving District 21 in the Texas House, from the vibrant community ... to Southeast Texans in need. And finally, after years of personally lobbying our leaders in Washington ...

AUSTIN -- Budget estimates released Tuesday showed the cost of the Texas Senate ... after he successfully campaigned to unseat many House Republicans who opposed the effort last session. Sen ...

A judge sentenced a powerful former US senator to 11 years in prison Wednesday, after he was convicted of ... had vowed to appeal the verdict handed down in July 2024, and on Wednesday he asked ...