Texas' Abbott Decries Storm Aid Bill; White House Bristles
The White House on Friday sent Congress a $44 billion disaster aid request that's already under attack as being way too small by lawmakers from states recently hit by hurricanes.
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The White House on Friday sent Congress a $44 billion disaster aid request that's already under attack as being way too small by lawmakers from states recently hit by hurricanes.
The Governor says on November 15th, the Trump administration will submit to Congress, a supplemental budget, which will include money for Texas.
White House officials say the list includes Texas Sen. John Cornyn.
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state is getting the ringing endorsement of Texas senator John Cornyn.
U.S. Senator John Cornyn introduced a legislation Friday that provides funding and resources to combat the Zika virus in Texas and across the country.
Democrats accused Republicans on Tuesday of taking their cues from Donald Trump after the Senate's No. 2 Republican said President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court should expect to be treated like a "piñata."
Obama rejected the pipeline application on Friday.
Sen. John Cornyn is introducing legislation that would reward states for sending information about residents with mental problems to the federal background check system for firearms purchasers.
Bipartisan legislation to crack down on human trafficking turned unexpectedly controversial Tuesday because of a Texas Republican-led provision relating to abortion that Democrats said they failed to notice.
President Obama is set to move forward with major immigration reform, unveiling his plans in an address on Thursday night. Watch parties are already being scheduled across the nation.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has defeated little-known Democrat David Alameel to win his third term.
Two Texas lawmakers are teaming up on a bill to speed removals of the unaccompanied Central American kids who've been arriving by the tens of thousands at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Several hot-button issues, including gay marriage, are being discussed at the state's GOP convention in Fort Worth. Friday will see a lineup of several high-profile speakers.
Sen. John Cornyn spent nearly $5.5 million in the two months leading up to Texas Republican primary to help fend off a challenge from the right by Congressman Steve Stockman.
Firebrand U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz had refused to endorse his colleague John Cornyn before the Texas primary, but a resounding Cornyn victory was enough to change his mind.
The first primary in what the GOP hopes is a triumphant year showed that the tea party wield considerable influence in one of the nation's most conservative states.
Texas voters are set to decide who will face off in some high-profile races come November. Tuesday is Primary Day across the state.
A member of the Bush dynasty, a history-making feat, heavyweights trying to survive, and winter weather. Primary elections in Texas on Tuesday figure to be anything but ordinary.
What could have been a tight primary now looks like a cakewalk for Sen. John Cornyn after his challenger ran a campaign so disastrous that many experts have disavowed him.
The sniping between establishment Republicans and tea partyers resumed Thursday as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse his state's senior senator in next week's Republican primary.
A Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate said that he negotiated in Afghanistan before 9/11, hoping to convince the Taliban to turn over Osama bin Laden.
The highest profile Democrat challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is a deep-pocketed Dallas dentist best known for a multimillion-dollar failed run for Congress in 2012.
Several candidates for Texas statewide offices, as well as Gov. Rick Perry, are set to speak and meet with veterans of foreign wars at their winter meeting in Austin on Friday.
Sen. Wendy Davis has endorsed Dallas dentist David Alameel in the Democratic primary race for the U.S. Senate. He is one of five candidates seeking the Democratic nomination.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is calling for big-tent inclusiveness among Republicans, and suggesting that his party needs to be the "responsible adults in the room and actually govern."
