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The Speaker of the House presides over the House, and the Lieutenant Governor presides over the Senate. It is a powerful arm of the Texas government not only because of its power of the purse to control and direct the activities of state government and the strong constitutional connections between it and the Lieutenant Governor, but also due to ...
The Texas Legislature passed maps for the state House of Representatives in 1971, but it did not pass state Senate maps, forcing the Legislative Redistricting Board to convene for the first time to draw the chamber's maps. The map for the state Senate passed the scrutiny of the courts, but the map for the state House did not. [96]
State Legislature United States Congress Electoral votes; Governor Lieutenant Governor Attorney General Comptroller Treasurer Land Comm. State Senate State House U.S. Senator (Class I) U.S. Senator (Class II) U.S. House; 1846 J. Pinckney Henderson (D) Albert Clinton Horton (D) Volney Howard (D) James B. Shaw (D) James H. Raymond (D) Thomas W ...
Texas special general election, 2014: Senate District 18 [7] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican: Lois Kolkhorst: 21,961 55.81 Republican: Gary Gates: 13,439 34.15 Democratic: Cindy Drabek 1,893 4.81 Democratic: Christian E. Hawkins 1,280 3.25 Republican: Charles Gregory 779 1.98 Turnout: 39,352 Republican hold
King, a former state House representative who has served in the Senate since 2023, said his priorities include border security, a strong economy with additional property tax relief and reduced ...
District 19 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Crockett, Edwards, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, and Zavala counties, and portions of Atascosa , Bexar, Brewster, and Guadalupe counties in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] The district is currently served by Democrat Roland Gutierrez.
After moving from the Texas House to the Senate in 2023, Republican Sen. Tan Parker is working to win another term. Parker, an entrepreneur and businessman, is facing Democrat Stephanie Draper ...
The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin. It is a powerful arm of the Texas government not only because of its power of the purse to control and direct the activities of state government and the strong constitutional connections between it and the lieutenant governor of Texas, but also due to Texas's plural executive.