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For proof positive that Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is running scared, look no further than his call for a special legislative session to pass bills on guns, abortion restrictions, school vouchers and other topics that would shore up his conservative credentials.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst listens to Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, during the Senate session on April 2, 2013.

With only three days left in the regular session, a key part of the overall budget deal has been rejected by the House, at least in its current form.

"We reached good policy. There is a high probability of it passing. It's not everything we wanted, but it is a lot of it.

With legislative adjournment looming on Monday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said he wants Gov.

Angered by the demise of key bills considered priorities by conservatives, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst declared in an interview Thursday that Gov.

In a week when negotiations over a state budget have blown up again and again, when political bickering between the House and Senate has reached pitched levels, Lt.

Houston Symphony music director Hans Graf exited his post in grand style Sunday night, ending his tenure as the symphony's longest-serving music director amid a stage full of admiring fans.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says he takes House leaders at their word, and that delicate pieces of a complicated budget deal will be passed.

David Dewhurst makes a last minute appeal, Art Acevedo loses his cool, and Juan Hinojosa jumps the shark.

Authorities in Houston, Texas are responding to calls for an investigation of Douglas Karpen, who is being considered the second Kermit Gosnell for killing babies born alive after abortion.

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.