In a dramatic two-ballot vote Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock clinched the title of speaker of the Texas House.

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power struggle within the Republican Party that came down to an extraordinary floor ...

The Texas House kicked off the 2025 session by electing an establishment Republican to lead the chamber, drawing criticism ...

David Cook, left, and Dustin Burrows lead the race ... House tradition — and the House’s impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Burrows entered the race around the same time ...

David Cook of Mansfield by cobbling together a coalition ... Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton — in the summer of 2023 expressing their disdain for Phelan over the speaker embracing ...

David Cook by a margin of 85-55 with the help of ... Top Republicans in Texas’s government, including Attorney General Ken Paxton and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, were cautious in their support of ...

David Cook of Mansfield and Democratic Rep ... Dade Phelan of Beaumont who oversaw the vote to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton over corruption charges. Paxton and Lt. Gov.

David Cook of Mansfield, was the preferred choice ... It also marks a stunning rebuke of Abbott, Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton, the most powerful political trio in the state, who worked ...

One was Democratic lawmaker Ana-María Rodriguez Ramos from Dallas and two Republican lawmakers in David Cook from Mansfield ... continued with Attorney General Ken Paxton and Lt.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been paid in cases involving 3 ex-cops: Jon Burge, Reynaldo Guevara and Ronald Watts. And more than 220 lawsuits are still pending. Beleaguered taxpayers might end ...

David Cook in Tuesday's House Speaker race—one ... Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton.