Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, has announced that he will run for re-election to the Texas House. Branch, a lawyer with the firm of Winstead, had been contemplating a run for state attorney general if the incumbent, fellow Republican Greg Abbott,...
The Senate Finance Committee gave initial approval today to health care legislation on nearly a party-line vote. Only Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, broke with the Republican ranks to vote for the bill that cleared the committee 14-9. After casting his...
Responding to an ultimatum from the top military commander in Afghanistan who says more troops are essential to stave off failure, Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is calling on NATO to provide more manpower. On MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn told reporters Wednesday he's optimistic about Republicans' chances in the 2010 elections. As chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, he's charged with helping craft his party's strategy going into the next election cycle. Republicans will...
Houston Mayor Bill White, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, criticized Texas Sen. John Cornyn's decision to vote not to confirm Judge Sonya Sotomayor on his blog today. White writes: "Senator John Cornyn acknowledged that Sonia Sotomayor has an...
Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison had some interesting things to say on MSNBC Friday morning after word spread that John McCain had picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Asked if she had been vetted for the vice...
About an hour after the McCain news conference, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and husband Ray Hutchison pulled up to the McCain office, waving at your humble Trailblazer as they drove past. Her spokesman, Matt Mackowiak, said later that she...
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