Posted on · The nearly $900 billion package includes an extension of jobless aid. The president's criticisms of the bill, including that relief payments would be too small, caught much of Washington by surprise.
Posted on · The bill now heads to the Senate
Posted on · The measure's defeat was long expected. Many GOP moderates considered it too harsh and Democrats were solidly against it
Posted on · A House GOP bill to rewrite the tax code was going to be released on Wednesday, and is now expected on Thursday. The holdup could threaten plans to get it signed into law by year's end.
Posted on · Wild hogs and hot air balloons aren't a good mix, wrote one Republican lawmaker to Gov. Greg Abbott in May, trying to convince the governor to veto a bill that could potentially create a "future catastrophe." The request seemingly fell on deaf ears; Abbott signed the legislation last month.
Posted on · The often-combative Texas Board of Education would expand its ability to reject textbooks it doesn't like, rolling back limits that have been in place for more than two decades, under a proposal on the verge of clearing the state Legislature.
Posted on · A bill passed Friday in the Texas House that would limit and restrict immunizations to children taken into state custody.
Posted on · A year after Texas' attorney general questioned whether fantasy sports are legal, state lawmakers are considering proclaiming that they are.
Posted on · Centrist and hard-line Republicans came out against the GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. Facing a near-certain defeat, House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump agreed to pull the bill.
Posted on · The Senate's public education committee will hear testimony on the leading "private school choice bill" for this first time this session, Tuesday at 9 a.m.
Posted on · Former Houston Mayor Bill White discusses his new book, America’s Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph and Collapse. The book discusses the different times in our nation’s history when our national debt spiked, how those spikes in debt were handled, how things are being done differently today, and what that could all mean for our future. White […]
Posted on · An original edition of the Magna Carta from the year 1217 is on display now through Aug. 17 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Dirk Van Tuerenhout, curator of anthropology at the museum, tells us about the document, its historical significance and its legacy — including influencing the US Bill of Rights. Along with […]
Posted on · We learn about veteran Houston comedian Andy Huggins, who’s an alum of both The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and Houstonâs Comedy Workshop. He was one of the Texas Outlaw Comics in the 1980s, which included Riley Barber, Steve Epstein, John Farneti, Jimmy Pineapple and Bill Hicks. More: Hear Houston Matters’ interview with local comedians, […]
Posted on · We look at the hiring of Bill O’Brien as the Texans’ new coach and check in on the Rockets who face the Lakers on Wednesday before heading out for a four-game eastern road trip with games at Atlanta, Washington, Boston and New Orleans. CultureMap Houston Columnist MK Bower joins us.
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