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Texas Gov. Rick Perry has aggressively helped shape state policy in his 12 years in office, vetoing more than 260 bills.

A bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives that is working toward a comprehensive immigration reform proposal is nearing consensus.

The Texas Senate will vote next week on a bill that would cripple small tobacco companies and violate our state constitution.

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives focused on the Fourth Amendment implications of domestic UAV surveillance at a hearing May 17, but did not get a unified message from witnesses on how to tackle the issue.

What once looked like an impending change to Texas legislation regarding end-of-life care fell short Friday morning, May 17.

Issues of transparency and ethics in government and political campaigns have received mixed reaction from the Texas Legislature this year, but they'll come up again Monday when the House considers an omnibus ethics bill.

Texas lawmakers reached a deal Friday on a two-year spending plan that would restore $3.93 billion to public schools and clear the way for taking $2 billion from the state's rainy day fund for water projects, according to a state official close the negotiations.

The good people of Texas have been leaders in fighting the evil of Islamic terrorism.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, center, hugs Tonya Solis-Mosby, American Red Cross, as Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, right, looks on in the Rancho Brazos Estates subdivision near Granbury, TX, Friday, May 17, 2013.

"I did recruiting last spring and did an internship, and they gave me a job, so I start in September," he said.

AUSTIN - Today, the Texas House of Representatives passed, on the Local & Consent Calendar, SCR13, officially naming the city of Canton the official walking capitol of Texas.

Capital Metro Vice President of Internal Audit Caroline Beyer was named Internal Auditor of the Year on May 14 by the local chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

After having been voted out of the Texas Senate and out of committee in the House, the five craft beer bills permitting Texas brewpubs to distribute and small-production breweries to offer on-site sales direct to consumers have been scheduled for a full House vote today, Friday, May 17.

You know that little clause at the bottom of pretty much anything that says something like, "we don't discriminate based on gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, hair color, etc."? The clause that you and I take for granted because we've all been taught starting in Kindergarten and by Marlo Thomas that discrimination is bad and you should be ... (more)

When the nine-story building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, 1127 people were killed.

As midnight came and went with still no compromise between the House and Senate as top negotiators had predicted, House Democrats on Thursday accused Republicans of taking money set aside for public schools and making threats to revive contentious abortion bills.

Music rarely excuses itself from politics. Partisan beliefs make their way into every style from country to hip-hop, and all the weird, gray places in between.

State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy said officials were still classifying the cause of the fire that sparked the deadly explosion as undetermined - but have not ruled out criminal activity.

At least six people are dead and seven missing after as many as 10 tornadoes rip through north-central Texas.

Lawmakers in Texas passed two bills this week that open the doors to legal discrimination against members of the LGBT community.