(AP Photo/Stephen Spillman)(Stephen Spillman / AP) AUSTIN — Texas House lawmakers elected Republican Rep. Dustin Burrows as speaker Tuesday, shortly after the Legislature’s 89th regular ...

Rep. Dustin Burrows was elected as Speaker of the House on Tuesday. The Lubbock Republican won in an 85-55 vote. 36 Republicans and 49 Democrats AUSTIN - Rep. Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock ...

Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) won the speakership. “The duty bestowed upon me today as Speaker of the Texas House is one of immense responsibility and honor, and I thank each of my colleagues for ...

AUSTIN — The 89th legislative session began Tuesday with members of the Texas House electing Rep. Dustin Burrows as their new speaker after a month-long divisive battle among Republicans.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Burrows defeated Rep. David Cook with a coalition of Republican and ...

Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination ... The vote went to a runoff after Democratic Rep. and speaker candidate Ana-María Rodriguez Ramos was eliminated.

As several Texas House members huddled around 95-year-old Hargie Savoy as she sat in her wheelchair near a front corner of the spacious chamber Wednesday, Speaker Dustin Burrows left his post at ...

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State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, holds a press conference in the Speaker's Committee Room on Saturday saying he has the votes to become Texas House speaker in the upcoming legislative session.

Texas State Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Lubbock Republican, is vying for Texas Speaker of the House - another development in what has been his non-conventional rise to power in the state legislature.

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

AUSTIN, Texas and LUBBOCK, Texas (KBTX/KWTX/KCBD) - Texas House members Tuesday afternoon elected Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock to one of the most powerful positions in state government, Speaker of ...