Here's what happened: 11:18 a.m.: "Partisanship and ambition are not unusual in a state capitol, but here in Texas, right now," Davis says, launching her filibuster, "it has risen to a level of ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — Texas Comptroller Glenn ... one that launched Democrat Wendy Davis into fame for her 11-hour filibuster). He also authored a bill that allowed students with concealed ...

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar will be the next ... (That bill was the one that launched Democrat Wendy Davis into fame for her 11-hour filibuster). He also authored a bill that allowed students ...

Yhe bill calls on the Treasury Department to release $100 notes only featuring Trump’s face by the end of 2028.

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...

A freshman GOP congressman from Texas wants to pay homage to President ... be dead on arrival in the Senate thanks to a Democratic filibuster, which requires 60 votes to overcome it.

President Trump continued to threaten tariffs as DOGE continued its cuts of the federal workforce. It was another ...

Chip Roy, R-Texas, is prompting alarm among voting right ... but would still need to sway a handful of Democrats to avoid a filibuster. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, has introduced ...

Speaker Mike Johnson is betting that Republicans can muscle the bill through the House largely on their own. Normally, when ...

Senate Democrats are leery of blocking a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding bill, fearing a government shutdown may backfire on them politically by giving Elon Musk and the ...