Author: Fernando Ramirez
Texas bill seeks second chance for juvenile offenders
The Texas House Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Committee reviewed a bill on Monday that would show more leniency for Texans who ...Are Texas Republicans scared of a little direct democracy?
Session after session, Texas Republicans have confidently shot down bills they have deemed unworthy of being called Texan or Texas law. “Wrong ...House passes George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
Democrats in the U.S. House voted to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on Wednesday. The legislation includes reform for ...Lawmakers urge Texans to continue masking up despite Abbott’s orders
Health experts, elected officials, and Democrats in Texas are concerned that Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order lifting the statewide mask mandate and ...Texas Dems announce candidate training program
Texas Democrats and the National Democratic Training Committee announced Tuesday the arrival of a new candidate training program. The four-week training program ...Joe Biden visits Houston as snowstorm recovery continues
President Joe Biden visited Houston with First Lady Jill Biden on Friday to meet with officials and aid workers following last week’s ...Orlando isn’t as nice as Cancún, Cruz tells CPAC crowd
“I gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It’s not as nice as Cancún. But it’s nice,” Sen. Ted Cruz told a crowd of ...Texas Legislature kicks off hearings over grid failure
Lawmakers in the Texas Legislature held joint hearings in the state Senate and House on Thursday to get to the bottom of ...After Cancún trip, Ted Cruz will probably never see the White House
New polling this week shows that the trip Sen. Ted Cruz took to Cancún amid a catastrophic snowstorm in Texas may be ...Congress demands answers from Abbott over grid failure
Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, including Reps. Marc Veasey of Dallas and Lizzie Fletcher of Houston, are conducting ...Texas Republicans are blaming everything on ERCOT and windmills
On Friday, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas finally announced an end to the power outages that left millions of Texas in ...Ted Cruz says he fled Texas at the request of his daughters
After receiving sharp criticism Wednesday for leaving a chaos-ridden Texas to go on vacation in Cancun, Mexico, Sen. Ted Cruz says the ...
