Deliberations underway in Edwards trial
A jury deliberating whether John Edwards broke campaign finance laws made a request for evidence and...
 

U.S. Postal Service moves plan forward
The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing...
 

Edwards closing arguments underway
Defense attorneys for John Edwards are saying in their closing arguments that the former presidential...
 

McNamee admits lying about steroids
Brian McNamee, the chief prosecution witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, conceded he initially...
 

Defense bill challenges Obama policy
In an election-year challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans are pressing ahead with a...
 

Dempsey avoids broaching defense cuts Video
The nation’s top military commander was in Virginia Beach Wednesday to speak at the Joint War Fighting...
 

Clemens accuser: 'I didn't make it up'
McNamee has frequently taken long pauses before answering questions in three days on the witness stand,...
 

Defense rests without calling Edwards
John Edwards' defense team rested Wednesday without calling the two-time Democratic presidential candidate...
 

Defense mum on Edwards testifying
The John Edwards corruption trial appears to be winding down without testimony, so far, from the former...
 

Edwards' finance chairman paid mistress
Records introduced Tuesday at John Edwards' corruption trial show his campaign finance chairman paid...
 
 
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Political News


Cruz: TX values cure for nation's ills
U.S. Senate hopeful and tea party darling Ted Cruz has likened Texans' love of freedom and entrepreneurial spirit to "America…
 

Feds in crosshairs of Texas energy race
Almost all the candidates running for two seats on the three-member Texas Railroad Commission promise to fight federal environmental…
 

Voting centers will now be permanent
Travis County Commissioners voted on making voting centers a permanent fixture during elections.
 

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Texas 82nd Legislature


Fewer dollars for school bus seat belts
After a deadly school bus accident six years ago, the Legislature enacted a law to outfit more buses with seat belts. But…
 

Medicaid costs outpacing revenues
Texas' share for providing health care to poor children, the impoverished elderly and the disabled is growing faster than…
 

Planned Parenthood injunction lifted
The Texas attorney general has convinced a federal appeals judge to examine whether the state has a right to deny funding…
 

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KXAN Political Blog


School Bus Seat Belts: A Six-year Struggle
I first met Brad Brown and Steve Forman in the summer of 2010, driving four hours from Austin to Beaumont. Both men were…
 

KXAN Lands on the Colbert Report
I had just wrapped up work after an interesting evening at a Ron Paul rally at the University of Texas when my phone came…
 

Ron “Bulldog” Paul rejects…
Just call him “Bulldog.” Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, revealed his pick for a Secret Service nickname Tuesday night on the…
 

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Texas (change)

 
Republican Rick Perry is Governor of Texas. Two Republicans represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, and Texas has 32 representatives in the U.S. House: 20 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
 
Offices & Officials

Governor: Rick Perry
Lieutenant Governor: David Dewhurst
Attorney General: Greg Abbott

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