Meanwhile in the Panhandle, Republicans were less excited that Burrows won the speaker contest thanks largely to Democrats.

AUSTIN – The election of Rep. Dustin Burrows as Texas House speaker with help from Democrats has many Republicans crying foul ...

Speaker Dustin Burrows’ (R-Lubbock ... and pundits to deny reality or attack Burrows from the right. In fact, with Burrows now at the helm, some in Austin are wondering whether the House ...

Texas has a powerful new House speaker after years of escalating Republican infighting. Dustin Burrows won the job on Tuesday ...

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.

Dustin Burrows as speaker of the Texas House, capping off an extraordinarily public battle that pitted establishment Republicans against the party's ultraconservative wing. In a state House with a ...

Dustin Burrows on his election as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives on the first day of the 89th legislative session Tuesday in Austin. Burrows, a Lubbock Republican lawmaker and ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role. As expected ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — It is no secret most in the Texas Republican Party and state Republican leaders did not want Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, to win the election for Speaker of the House on Tuesday.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials are reacting after state Rep. Dustin Burrows was elected as the House speaker following two rounds of voting Tuesday. Burrows (R-Lubbock) received 85 votes ...

AUSTIN, Texas – The election of Rep. Dustin Burrows as Texas House speaker with help from Democrats has many Republicans crying foul. Republican grassroots activists have made stripping ...