AUSTIN — Texas House lawmakers elected Republican Rep. Dustin Burrows as speaker Tuesday, shortly after the Legislature’s ...

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The Texas Legislature convenes for its 89th regular session at noon today, kicking off 140 days of wrangling over the ...

In a dramatic two-ballot vote Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock clinched the title of speaker of the ...

Texas House lawmakers elected state representative Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) as speaker for the 89th Texas legislative ...

As the new House Speaker Rep. Burrows (R-Lubbock) will have a critical role in deciding the legislative priorities during the ...

Burrow’s win was an assertion of the chamber’s longstanding independence, and it set up another session of likely clashes ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clenched the speakership of the Texas House on Tuesday in the culmination of an ...

Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) won the gavel in a runoff election with Rep. David Cook of Mansfield on the first day of the 89th ...

State Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock will be the next Texas Speaker of the House. Here's how West Texans and others on social ...

State Rep. Dustin Burrows beat out the MAGA-favored state Rep. David Cook by a margin of 85-55 with the help of 49 Democrats and 36 Republicans.