Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos is the first Democrat to challenge Speaker Dade Phelan, who also faces opposition from 5 fellow ...

Rick Perry, who served 14 years as Texas governor, will be an unpaid adviser to the embattled Republican leader of the Texas ...

Reps. Tom Oliverson and Shelby Slawson, both members of House Republican leadership, became the first two candidates to ...

Former Gov. Rick Perry will serve as a senior adviser to Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, whose continued leadership of the ...

Amarillo Republican Rep. John Smithee became the seventh person to enter the race for Texas House speaker when he announced ...

Former Gov. Rick Perry is back in Texas government as a senior adviser to House Speaker Dade Phelan.

Michael Karlis is a Staff Writer at the San Antonio Current. He is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., ...

Rodríguez Ramos faces an uphill battle, as Democrats are the minority party with 64 seats in the 150-member Texas House.

State Rep. James Frank, a Wichita Falls Republican who is one of the Texas House’s leading voices on health and foster care, ...

Amarillo Republican Rep. John Smithee became the fifth person to enter the race for Texas House Speaker when he announced his ...

Perry served as governor of Texas for 14 years and later briefly served as the Secretary of Energy under former President ...

Perry is Texas’ longest-serving governor who also served as a state representative, lieutenant governor and agriculture ...