/tags/house-speaker House Speaker en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:47:11 GMT /politics/2024-12-18/house-speaker-cook-burrows-abbott-vouchers-texas-legislature As the Texas Legislature prepares to return in January, the battle between two Republicans for the powerful role of House speaker is underscoring divisions within the party. Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:47:11 GMT /politics/2024-12-18/house-speaker-cook-burrows-abbott-vouchers-texas-legislature Blaise Gainey /politics/2024-12-05/texas-democrats-gene-wu-as-chair-speakers-race The party is in the minority, but it’s the leader's job to make sure their voices are heard across the aisle. Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:09:59 GMT /politics/2024-12-05/texas-democrats-gene-wu-as-chair-speakers-race Blaise Gainey /politics/2024-05-29/house-speaker-dade-phelan-wins-runoff-surviving-challenge-by-texas-gops-far-right-forces Business-minded Republicans spent millions trying to save Phelan, whose far-right opponent had the backing of Donald Trump, Ken Paxton and Dan Patrick. Phelan won by 366 votes, according to unofficial returns. Wed, 29 May 2024 13:32:52 GMT /politics/2024-05-29/house-speaker-dade-phelan-wins-runoff-surviving-challenge-by-texas-gops-far-right-forces Zach Despart /texas/2017-03-23/why-house-speaker-joe-straus-just-compared-the-senate-finance-committee-to-enron From Texas Standard:The Texas Legislature’s two houses have about nine weeks to approve a balanced two-year budget. But disagreement over accounting� Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:20:06 GMT /texas/2017-03-23/why-house-speaker-joe-straus-just-compared-the-senate-finance-committee-to-enron Rhonda Fanning /politics/2014-01-20/turners-declaration-could-impact-republican-primaries State Rep. Scott Turner, R-Frisco, recently announced his candidacy for speaker of the House, an election for which will not be held until 2015.His timing� Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:17:41 GMT /politics/2014-01-20/turners-declaration-could-impact-republican-primaries Ross Ramsey | Texas Tribune /politics/2010-12-21/family-feud-gop-edition State House member Warren Chisum (R-Pampa) says he has collected a enough signatures to force the Republican caucus to take a vote on who will be the next� Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:02:53 GMT /politics/2010-12-21/family-feud-gop-edition Ben Philpott /politics/2010-11-11/paxton-enters-speakers-race And then there were three.State Rep. Ken Paxton (R-McKinney) has announced he's running to be the next Speaker of the Texas House. The Associated Press� Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:59:54 GMT /politics/2010-11-11/paxton-enters-speakers-race Ian Crawford, KUT News