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The Texas House on Tuesday elected state Rep. Dustin Burrows (R) to lead the chamber in a blow to the rising far-right wing of the party, defeating a candidate supported by Texas Attorney General ...
(The Center Square) – Members of the Texas House elected their new speaker Tuesday, state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock. They did so after the former speaker, state Rep. Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont ...
The 2024 Texas House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024. [1] The winners of this election will serve in the 89th Texas Legislature . It was held alongside numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2024 U.S. presidential election and the 2024 Texas Senate election .
To be elected Speaker, a candidate needs 76 votes from the 150-member House. Currently, Republicans hold an 88-62 majority over Democrats in the House.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, first Black woman ever elected to public office from Dallas, first woman in Texas history to lead a major Texas House committee (the Labor Committee), and the first registered nurse elected to Congress. Julie Johnson, U.S. Representative (2025-present) Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., father of President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963 ...
Seats up for election were all seats of the Texas Legislature, [2] all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and the Class I seat to the United States Senate, for which two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz ran for and won re-election. [3]
Texas House members with family and guests crowd the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol for the opening of the 88th Texas Legislative Session in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.
The 89th Texas Legislature is the meeting of the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Texas, composed of the Texas Senate and the Texas House of Representatives. The regular session is scheduled to until June 2, 2025.