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Texas House speaker who faced blowback over Paxton impeachment drops bid to keep postAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican speaker of the Texas House abandoned efforts Friday to keep his powerful post in the face of unrelenting pressure from the party's hard right and anger over ...
AUSTIN, Texas — he Texas State Legislature ... allowed to set the agenda." The previous House Speaker, Rep. Dade Phelan, chose to drop his bid for another term after other Republican leaders ...
Speaker Dustin Burrows’ (R-Lubbock) bid for the top post in the Texas House of Representatives proved successful on Jan. 14, the first day of the legislature’s biennial regular session.
The Texas House on Tuesday elected state Rep ... backed by Paxton and other top Republicans, but dropped his bid to hold on to the Speaker’s gavel last month amid the simmering tensions.
David Cook, R-Mansfield, after winning the vote for the next House speaker ... to keep those members off the ballot altogether. Shortly after Burrows’ election, Republican Party of Texas Chair ...
LEANDER — Texas Attorney ... bipartisan support in his bid for the leadership post. And that alliance with Democrats, which picks up on Phelan's two-term tenure as speaker, is what angered ...
This comes after Dade Phelan announced he was dropping out of the race on Friday AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas House of Representatives is one step closer to having a new speaker, just one day after ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The speaker of the Texas House has dropped efforts to keep his powerful post following a bruising ... said Friday he was ending his bid to serve another term as speaker ...
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After he was elected speaker of the ...
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