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Stanley K. Young, Texas Legislative Handbook (1973). Univ. of Tex., The Legislative Branch in Texas Politics, (last accessed Oct. 8, 2006) (stating that "The Texas Legislature is the most powerful of the three main branches of government[,]" primarily because it is "less weak than the other branches"). See also: Texas Government Newsletter
No minister of the gospel or priest of any denomination whatever was eligible to the office of the Executive of the Republic, nor to a seat of either branch of the Congress of the same. [6] Each house was to judge election and qualification of its own members. A quorum in either house was two-thirds of its membership.
Austin is the capital of Texas. The State Capitol resembles the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., but is faced in Texas pink granite and is topped by a statue of the "Goddess of Liberty" holding aloft a five-point Texas star. The capitol is also notable for purposely being built seven feet taller than the U.S. national capitol. [1]
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 ...
“The margin in Congress is razor thin and the lack of a Republican vote representing CD-12 disenfranchises 2 million people,” wrote Tarrant County GOP chairman in a statement to the Express ...
Texas once took pride in the fact that its Legislature didn't operate the way Congress does. That boast could be coming to an end. Candidate for speaker calls Texas House 'dysfunctional.'
(Texas did not vote in 1864 and 1868 due to the Civil War and Reconstruction). [6] In the post-Civil War era, two of the most important Republican figures in Texas were African Americans George T. Ruby and Norris Wright Cuney. Ruby was a black community organizer, director in the federal Freedmen's Bureau, and leader of the Galveston Union League.
(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 ...