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Johnson also worked for the National Association of Home Builders and Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America.

Senators on Tuesday rejected building the 700 miles of double-tier border fencing Congress authorized just seven years ago, with a majority of the Senate saying they didn't want to delay granting illegal immigrants a legal status while the fence was being built.

Sen. Ted Cruz reportedly received threats from a man who said he would kidnap, murder and burn the tea partier and his father.

What should you make of a statewide preference poll more than a year out from the next gubernatorial/midterm election and more than three years from the next presidential? The answer depends on what you want from it.

Gov.a a Rick Perry of Texas is expected in the coming weeks to make a major political announcement concerning his political future -- but a poll released Monday finds he is increasingly in poor shape in the Lone Star State.a Despite flopping badly when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination ina a 2012,a a he has left the door open to ... (more)

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst blames his stunning loss to Ted Cruz in last year's Senate race on his campaign team and delays in staging the Republican primary.

Speaking at a fundraiser Tuesday evening for Rep. Ed Markey's Senate campaign, Vice President Joe Biden criticized the Republican Party for following the lead of freshman Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul on issues such as gun control.

JOHNSON TO LEAD BUILDING MATERIALS ASSOCIATION: Mike Johnson , a top lobbyist at the National Beer Wholesalers Association , is jumping to the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association as its next president and CEO.

While John Cornyn cosponsored Ted Cruz's amendment to defund the Affordable Care Act in the Senate, and voted thirty times to repeal the law that institutes a wide range of common sense health insurance reforms, he was writing the government in support of a grant application that would be funded by Obamacare.

ST. LOUIS, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has joined the International Advisory Board at FleishmanHillard, the firm announced today.

Sen. Ted Cruz called President Barack Obama the biggest obstacle to immigration reform and refused to rule out filibustering the reform bill drafted by the Senate's bipartisan "gang of eight" when asked twice about his intentions on Monday.

Ambitious and sometimes wildly optimistic candidates for statewide offices are running all over the place, energized by the number of potential open seats on the 2014 ballots.

This week's featured guest is former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who discusses her new book, Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas .

Letters from GOP lawmakers to the Obama administration reveal that many of healthcare reform's staunchest critics have actively lobbied for the law's funds.

When Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced May 29 that she won't run for statewide office in 2014, including her own, it set in motion a free-for-all to replace her - at least among Republicans.

As the 83rd Texas Legislature winds down, the future of public education, water infrastructure and other critical problems hangs in the balance.

The head of the University of Texas system will discuss higher education and the future of research universities, amid an ongoing debate over the future of the state's institutions.

I couldn't help but wonder when I heard Republican congresswoman, Marsha Blackburn say on Sunday's Meet the Press that women don't want equal pay laws, they just want to be recognized as contributing, qualified workers by the companies that hire them, why conservative women are so depressingly willing to turn on their own.

During a roundtable discussion on NBC's Meet The Press, former White House advisor David Axelrod asked if she would support a law promoting workplace gender equality.

Good read by Jay Root in The Texas Tribune today about whether Governor Oops will run for re-election as governor of Texas or run for something else, who knows what, president of France, whatever.