In a rare move Wednesday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg announced a correction to a factual error in her dissent of the court’s decision to allow Texas to implement its voter ID law in time for the midterm elections. Corrections and additions to Supreme Court decisions happen relatively frequently, with some orders producing pages […] [Read More]

On Aug. 27, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, chairman of the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee, wrote to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden asking for a status report on the new Space Launch System and Orion crew vehicle, key projects in returning the nation to preeminence in space. Other than a cursory acknowledgement that NASA […] [Read More]

The ad war is anything but moderate in Texas’ only truly competitive congressional race between Democratic incumbent Pete Gallego and Republican challenger Will Hurd. The Hurd campaign cried foul Wednesday over Gallego’s latest 30-second spot, which touts his “moderate” voting record. “The bottom line is that he votes with Nancy Pelosi 71 percent of the […] [Read More]

In an op-ed for USA Today, Cruz highlighted 10 key priorities the GOP will need to focus on in the 2015 Congress. [Read More]

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, requested Friday that the Government Accountability Office analyze voter turnout in Texas this year to determine if the state’s voter identification law – which earlier this week was reinstated by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals – has a discriminatory effect on minorities and voter turnout. In his […] [Read More]

With a week to go before early voting, Democratic incumbent Pete Gallego is outpacing GOP challenger Will Hurd in the money chase in Texas’ premier congressional battleground district. Gallego, in his first term, took in $606,286 in contributions over the three-month period ending Sept. 30. Hurd, making his second bid for a U.S. House seat, […] [Read More]

Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Austin, announced that the House Homeland Security committee will hold a hearing in Texas to discuss the coordination and responses of government officials to the first confirmed Ebola virus case in the United States. The hearing will be at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Friday at noon. The list of speakers […] [Read More]

Getting two politicians to share one microphone? Good luck with that. The Democratic speaker at the Gridiron Club’s winter dinner this year is actually two speakers _ HUD Secretary Julian Castro and his identical twin brother, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro. The high-flying San Antonio brothers will be cracking jokes Dec. 6 at the venerable club’s […] [Read More]