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After three days of forced silence on the micro-blogging site, today Twitter has apologized and fully reinstated Empower Texans' (@EmpowerTexans)...

Without warning or notification, social media mini-blog site Twitter on Monday simultaneously "suspended" the main Empower Texans feed along with the...

In a legislative session controlled by a rhetorically conservative super-majority, they accomplished the bare fiscal minimum but did little to...

More than 5,000 letters are being delivered from taxpayers living around the state to their legislators. They are asking lawmakers to adopt a...

Senate Finance Chairman Steve Ogden announced on the chamber's floor today he would remove use of the Rainy Day Fund as an automatic financing method...

Listen to the March 10 statewide conference call with Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The call focused primarily on fiscal issues, with an emphasis on the...

Legislation filed in both chambers of the Texas Legislature would move authority, responsibility, and control over funding for the health care system...

Legislators working to reduce spending have strong re-election support from voters in both parties, while tax-hikers are strongly opposed. The...

Texas voters say that raising taxes and increasing government spending will harm job growth, and they want lawmakers to tackle reforms in government...

The vote for House Speaker will be included on the Fiscal Responsibility Index, announced the president of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility today.

Incumbent House Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio now faces two opponents in the race for the speakership: Warren Chisum of Pampa and Ken Paxton of...

On election day, lawmakers were issued a mandate to legislate conservatively. In Texas, public policy starts with the committee chairs. We thought...