AUSTIN — The 89th legislative session began Tuesday with members of the Texas ... Burrows decided to run anyway despite caucus rules saying Republicans need to back their nominee. Rep. Jeff ...

Dustin Burrows as ... speaker in Texas history.” Some Republicans predicted conservative priorities will pass through the House. “We have to come together,” Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Allen, said ...

Burrow’s win was an assertion of the chamber’s longstanding independence, and it set up another session of likely clashes with the more partisan Texas Senate.

State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, shakes hands with state Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, after winning the vote for the next House speaker on the first day of the 2025 Texas Legislature in ...

Jeff Leach, R-Plano, after Burrows defeated Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, in a two-candidate runoff for speaker during opening day of the 89th regular session at the Texas Capitol in Austin on ...