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Straus is on route to becoming the most powerful House Speaker in Texas history. - Click here for the article . For the first time sin...

- Click here for the article . Texas’ youth are at the top of House Speaker Joe Straus’s priority list for the next legislative session. ...

Straus maybe have wrapped up another term as speaker last March. - Click here for the article . Texas House Speaker Joe Straus and his ...

For our look at the Texas House. - Click here for the article . House Speaker Joe Straus took less heat. Some brickbats aimed at him sail...

This builds on the post below about dark money in Texas campaigns. Legislators are already nervous about the next biennial budget. - Lawmak...

Billionaires don't like the Speaker apparently. The story doesn't give a clear indication why. - Click here for the article . B...

- Jared Woodfill Starts Small in Bid to 'Take Back' Texas GOP . The internal struggle between the social conservatives and the ...

- Texas Speaker Joe Straus has two Tea Party affiliated challengers to his seat in the upcoming primary election. Straus represents the 121...

- Grading Straus . When tea party-aligned Republicans at the Texas Capitol talk about why they can't get any number of bills passed, th...

The Texas House Speaker weighs in on what should be on the agenda of the 85th session. - Click here for the story . Fourteen months ahe...

- Tim Cole Commission begins work, optimistic for recommendations . Richard Miles was just 19 years old when his nightmare began.  In 1994,...

Here's a great comparison between what it takes to be a good Speaker of the House in the Texas Legislature as opposed to the U.S. Congr...

Some choice quotes from his Texas Monthly piece : - The 83rd Legislature was the best session in many years, going back to at least 2003,...

Texas' legislative maps are interim maps drawn by federal judges since the one produced by the legislature was judged to be discriminato...

At the beginning of each session of the Texas House and Senate, each chamber establishes the rules that will govern how bills will be consid...

The Texas Tribune has a brief write up on the Speaker. Whatever move against him that was going to happen against him fizzled very quickly...

From the Texas Tribune : After the last of his challengers dropped out Tuesday, San Antonio Republican Joe Straus was elected to a third ter...

The Texas House will select a speaker when it convenes in a couple weeks. The presiding Speaker is Joe Straus, but since he was elected last...

This builds on theme , Texas' concerns with the future availability of water: Texas House Speaker Joe Straus promised to work on wat...

In 2302 we discussed how the Texas Speaker can use committee assignments to reward and punish legislators, here's proof, sort of, involv...