/tags/dustin-burrows Dustin Burrows en-US Copyright Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:07:18 GMT /politics/2025-04-16/texas-house-passes-7-7-billion-school-funding-bill-debates-controversial-voucher-legislation After hours of debate — and years of pushing from Gov. Greg Abbott — the Texas House gave initial approval to a bill to create an Education Savings Account plan. The school voucher program would allow parents to use public funds towards private school costs. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:07:18 GMT /politics/2025-04-16/texas-house-passes-7-7-billion-school-funding-bill-debates-controversial-voucher-legislation Blaise Gainey, Nina Banks, Lucio Vasquez /politics/2025-04-09/with-less-than-two-months-to-go-the-texas-house-has-passed-only-8-bills-this-session-why Since the 89th Legislature kicked off in January, the Texas Senate has passed nearly 200 bills. But as of Wednesday morning, their counterparts in the House have only passed 8. Why is that? Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:05:48 GMT /politics/2025-04-09/with-less-than-two-months-to-go-the-texas-house-has-passed-only-8-bills-this-session-why Blaise Gainey /texas-news/2024-12-12/gov-greg-abbott-signals-support-for-david-cook-over-dustin-burrows-in-gop-fight-for-house-speaker Days after the Texas House GOP caucus backed Cook, Abbott made clear that he expects Republican representatives to do the same. Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:36:20 GMT /texas-news/2024-12-12/gov-greg-abbott-signals-support-for-david-cook-over-dustin-burrows-in-gop-fight-for-house-speaker Juan Salinas II | The Texas Tribune /texas-news/2024-12-09/dustin-burrows-says-he-has-votes-to-be-texas-house-speaker-after-david-cook-wins-gop-caucus-vote Burrows claims the support of a coalition of Republicans and Democrats, while Cook has the endorsement of the GOP caucus. Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:27:12 GMT /texas-news/2024-12-09/dustin-burrows-says-he-has-votes-to-be-texas-house-speaker-after-david-cook-wins-gop-caucus-vote James Barragán | The Texas Tribune, Renzo Downey | The Texas Tribune , Jasper Scherer | The Texas Tribune /news/2019-10-17/calls-for-texas-house-speaker-dennis-bonnens-resignation-are-limited-but-growing A small but growing bipartisan group of Texas House members have called for Speaker Dennis Bonnen to resign after a secret recording of the GOP leader… Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:23:02 GMT /news/2019-10-17/calls-for-texas-house-speaker-dennis-bonnens-resignation-are-limited-but-growing Cassandra Pollock, Texas Tribune /politics/2019-08-16/dustin-burrows-resigns-as-texas-house-gop-caucus-chairman-amid-allegations-of-targeting-republicans State Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock has resigned as chair of the Texas House GOP Caucus, according to two people familiar with the matter. Burrows’… Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:14:48 GMT /politics/2019-08-16/dustin-burrows-resigns-as-texas-house-gop-caucus-chairman-amid-allegations-of-targeting-republicans Cassandra Pollock, Texas Tribune