AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican speaker of the Texas House abandoned efforts Friday to keep his powerful post following a bruising ... Dade Phelan said he was ending his bid to serve a ...

Many of the top assignments went to allies of new House Speaker Dustin Burrows. But a few also went to his critics.

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan has decided to drop his bid for another term ... he received during his terms as speaker and he will keep serving the House, looking ahead to the 89th legislative ...

AUSTIN, Texas — he Texas State Legislature ... allowed to set the agenda." The previous House Speaker, Rep. Dade Phelan, chose to drop his bid for another term after other Republican leaders ...

Speaker Dustin Burrows’ (R-Lubbock) bid for the top post in the Texas House of Representatives proved successful on Jan. 14, the first day of the legislature’s biennial regular session.

The Texas House on Tuesday elected state Rep ... backed by Paxton and other top Republicans, but dropped his bid to hold on to the Speaker’s gavel last month amid the simmering tensions.

David Cook, R-Mansfield, after winning the vote for the next House speaker ... to keep those members off the ballot altogether. Shortly after Burrows’ election, Republican Party of Texas Chair ...

By Ja'han Jones Far-right conservatives took a loss in Tuesday’s vote for speaker of Texas’ House of Representatives ... withdrew his bid to remain speaker after leading the impeachment ...

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