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Top House and Senate negotiators agreed to a two-year budget for the state of Texas Friday that restores about $4 billion of $5.4 billion in cuts to public education made in 2011.

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Following a week of seesaw talks and rising tensions between Republicans and Democrats over allegedly broken deals, Lt.

Having deja vu? Feel like we've been here before? Well, don't pinch yourself. Be calm.

The lieutenant governor of Texas, David Dewhurst, demanded an investigation Wednesday of an abortionist whose employees claim he twisted the heads off of babies who were born alive during abortion procedures.

Harris County authorities and the Texas Department of State Health Services are investigating a Houston doctor accused Wednesday by an anti-abortion group of performing late-term abortions in 2011.

He's already a Houston physician, Republican campaign donor, radio talk show host and litigant in a federal lawsuit against the roll-out of "Obamacare." Now Dr.

After assembling at the Hit the Spot Caf in Del Valle TX, the Blue Knight chapters rode en mass to link up with the other members of the procession on the Congress Street Bridge in Austin.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who assigns bills to Senate committees, appears to have directed the stout gun bills passed by the House to relatively safe harbors.

Student representatives from the University of Texas System 's fleet of campuses said Thursday that UT regents have not responded to student referendums or answered their questions about controversy surrounding UT Austin President Bill Powers .

Gov. David Dewhurst and Senate Education Chairman Dan Patrick , R-Houston, before heading inside to meet with lawmakers.

Gov. Rick Perry, left, and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst at Perry's State of the State address on Jan.

Dozens of protesters marched through the Texas Capitol on Wednesday, demanding expansion of the Medicaid program, but Democrats said political pressure from the governor was preventing the Legislature from considering the measure.

Dozens of protesters have marched through the Texas Capitol demanding expansion of the Medicaid program, but hopes for the program were fading.

You would think that once the Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act was constitutional that that would settle things, but then you would not be Steve Hotze .

When the Texas legislative session started in January, lawmakers came to Austin with money to spend and a specific set of priorities.

The Texas House on Monday tentatively cleared the way for a proposal to strip the state's top three lawmakers of the authority to award multimillion-dollar grants to tech startups from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund.

Steve Hotze , a Houston-area physician and major Republican campaign donor who has built his career around alternative medicine, says he is filing suit against the federal government to try to prevent the enforcement of the Affordable Care Act in Texas.

Texas high school students would have new curriculum requirements under legislation unanimously passed by the Senate on Monday -- but they won't be the ones the House envisioned when it approved its version of the legislation more than a month ago.

Dallas Area Interfaith held a news conference this morning at Temple Emanu-El, where more than a dozen faith leaders from the Dallas area gathered to support Medicaid expansion.