EXCLUSIVE: A House committee plans to surprise a top Biden administration official at a Wednesday hearing with a scathing document-request letter after lawmakers said the agency repeatedly failed to ...

District ethics committees currently exist throughout the state and involve the pro bono efforts of approximately 600 lawyers and public members. The OAE has a single location in Mercer County with an ...

During the 2025 session, the state legislature established the Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee to examine how nutrition affects health and how “ultra-processed foods” are connected to chronic ...

In a tight-budget year, the work of interim committees — those off-session groups that look at transportation, agriculture, water, healthcare, wildfires, pensions, and anything else lawmakers want to ...

The House Ethics Committee played an important role in the post-election drama for Donald Trump. Its investigation of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) — Trump's first nominee for attorney general — ...

Add to this complexity the fact that many committee charges are vague, lacking basic details such as committee composition, meeting rhythm, expected work and deliverables, reporting structure, and ...

At least three House lawmakers were caught snoozing in the middle of marathon committee work that bled into Wednesday morning to stitch together President Trump’s “big, beautiful” agenda bill. Footage ...

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