House Votes To Cut Food Stamp Funding
Posted: 7:20 PM The U.S. House voted Wednesday to cut $2 billion from the food stamp program.
Posted: 7:20 PM The U.S. House voted Wednesday to cut $2 billion from the food stamp program.
Posted: 4:39 PM Hundreds rallied against the IRS Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol.
Posted: 2:38 PM A tweet Wednesday from the account of the state’s lieutenant governor says the real intent of a special session measure proposing new restrictions on abortion clinics is closing the clinics down.
Posted: 2:05 PM A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is floating a proposal that could head off a steep jump in student loan rates.
Posted: 2:02 PM An influential GOP senator says the IRS is set to hand out $70 million in employee bonuses.
Posted: 5:16 PM A colleague and a staffer who’s also a doctor came to the rescue after a Texas congressman choked on a piece of popcorn.
Posted: 3:50 PM A Texas House panel Tuesday debated proposed new punishments for 17-year-old capital murder defendants.
Posted: 3:46 PM Texas senators have given a preliminary OK to a road-spending plan.
Posted: 2:47 PM Members of a Texas House committee say they think information about dangerous chemical sites such as the West fertilizer plant that exploded in April should be posted online.
Updated: 2:17 PM Texas House Democrats were fuming Monday about the governor’s veto of key ethics legislation.
Posted: 11:57 AM The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can’t require would-be voters to prove they’re U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system.
Posted: 11:51 AM Texas Gov. Rick Perry was trolling for jobs Monday in Connecticut.
Posted: 1:20 PM One of the Republican authors of a bipartisan immigration overhaul says without the measure the GOP is destined to fail in a bid to reclaim the White House in 2016.
Posted: 1:18 PM The president is taking his economic and foreign policy agendas to Northern Ireland for a meeting with heads of leading industrial nations.
Posted: 12:39 PM The chairman of the GOP is asking religious conservatives to support the party’s plans to expand.
Posted: 12:36 PM Scandals at the IRS could threaten critical funding as the IRS gears up for the major role it will play in the health care overhaul.
Posted: 12:02 PM Gov. Rick Perry has vetoed 24 bills and stirred ire when he cut funding for the state’s Public Integrity Unit because the DA who heads it refused to resign after pleading guilty to DWI.
Posted: 11:52 AM Texas lawmakers will hold a second hearing Monday on the handling of hazardous materials in the wake of the deadly West fertilizer plant explosion.
Posted: 4:37 PM Some recipients of jobless benefits in Texas will have to submit to drug testing under a bill that Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Friday.
Posted: 1:29 PM Texas senators Friday passed a bill creating a new punishment for 17-year-old offenders who are convicted of capital murder.
Posted: 12:18 PM The U.S. House passed a $638 billion defense bill Friday.
Posted: 12:07 PM Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told religious conservatives Friday the country will decline without immigrants.
Posted: 3:02 PM Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill Thursday aimed at averting lawsuits for saying “Merry Christmas” in the state’s public schools.
Posted: 3:00 PM Republican leaders were courting social conservatives Thursday.
