Sparks Fly Between Republicans Over Texas Gun Bill
Posted: 5:06 PM Sparks flew as Republican representatives debated a bill Thursday in Austin that would give lawmakers the right to carry handguns anywhere they want to.
Posted: 5:06 PM Sparks flew as Republican representatives debated a bill Thursday in Austin that would give lawmakers the right to carry handguns anywhere they want to.
Posted: 5:04 PM A day after she refused to answer hearings at a congressional hearing, the IRS official who oversaw targeting of conservative groups was replaced.
Posted: 3:18 PM Texas lawmakers voted Thursday to require an audit of Gov. Rick Perry’s economic development fund.
Posted: 3:16 PM More congressional hearings are expected next month into IRS targeting of conservative groups.
Updated: 3:34 PM The president Thursday defended the use of drone strikes against U.S. citizens abroad whom the administration believes to be a national security threat.
Posted: 6:40 PM Texas House members temporarily escalated the revenge-killing of Senate bills Wednesday.
Posted: 3:05 PM The Texas Senate Wednesday approved a bill that would allow schools to train teachers how to fight gunfire with gunfire.
Updated: 2:25 PM Hecklers demanding that Texas expand the Medicaid program repeatedly interrupted a speech by Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday.
Posted: 1:37 PM The U.S. Senate has rejected a GOP bid to turn the food stamp program over to the states.
Posted: 1:23 PM The Texas Legislature has honored late actor Sherman Hemsley.
Posted: 1:20 PM The IRS official at the center of the scandal engulfing the agency told Congress she’s done nothing wrong and then invoked the Fifth Amendment.
Posted: 1:12 PM The president plans to visit tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla. Sunday.
Posted: 3:45 PM The Texas Senate Tuesday approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would provide tax breaks for the spouses of troops killed in combat.
Posted: 1:16 PM A bill that would ban the sale of sugary sodas in some public schools was approved Tuesday by the Texas Senate.
Posted: 12:56 PM Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says the IRS’ targeting of conservative political groups was “unacceptable and inexcusable.”
Posted: 6:28 PM State lawmakers are considering using the Texas Rainy Day Fund to pay $1.75 billion owned to schools.
Posted: 4:18 PM Senior White House officials first learned on April 24 of an audit targeting inappropriate targeting of conservative groups by the IRS, but didn’t tell the president.
Posted: 12:32 PM A Texas House member, angered that a state senator blocked a vote on her bill, is responding in kind.
Posted: 12:28 PM Democrats are striking back after two years of GOP success in passing voter ID laws and purging voter rolls.
Posted: 12:15 PM The power tied to Gov. Rick Perry’s veto pen is growing as the end of the Legislature’s session nears.
Posted: 12:13 PM A senior White House adviser insisted Sunday that the president first learned that the IRS targeted tea party groups from news accounts.
Posted: 12:01 PM The CEO of The Associated Press says the government’s seizure of journalists’ phone records was unconstitutional.
Posted: 3:27 PM Texas House and Senate negotiators have struck a budget deal, an official said Friday.
Posted: 3:23 PM The GOP is hoping the scandal that’s engulfed the IRS could snag the president’s health care overhaul.
