Rick Perry Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Rick Perry.
Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth? Vote is imminent
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units. The proposal to be put before the roughly 1,400 voting members ...
Texas budget deal struck, but will Perry approve?
A deal on a Texas budget is finally done. Now the Legislature must withstand one final and furious week without sinking a compromise that restores nearly $4 billion to public schools and puts more water in the pipeline amid a historic drought. Gov. Rick Perry must also like this bargain, ...
Tornado-ravaged Texas town to start recovery
Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said Friday. In Granbury, the area hardest hit by Wednesday night's exceptionally strong tornado, workers are trying to restore water ...
Highlights from around the Capitol
A deal on a Texas budget is finally done. Now the Legislature must withstand one final and furious week without sinking a compromise that restores nearly $4 billion to public schools and puts more water in the pipeline amid a historic drought. Gov. Rick Perry must also like this bargain, ...
Legislature approves South Texas medical school
The Legislature has approved opening a medical school in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley. The House on Friday passed a constitutional amendment already approved by the Senate which seeks to open, as early as 2016, a medical school along the underserved Texas border with Mexico. Lawmakers also passed a funding ...
Dewhurst: Texas budget deal should be done Friday
A day of escalating tensions over stuck Texas budget talks ended late Thursday with the House and Senate on the apparent brink of a deal that would restore more than $4 billion to public schools gutted by historic spending cuts two years ago. Dewhurst told The Associated Press late Thursday ...
Perry shrugs off claim he's derailing budget talks
Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday shrugged off suggestions by top Democrats that his office is holding up delicate negotiations on the Texas budget by pressuring Republicans to steer money away from public education. The governor, holding a special ceremony to sign into law a measure that aims to protect against ...
Texas budget deal still elusive despite confidence
Compromise on a new Texas budget remained elusive late Wednesday as House and Senate negotiators worked deep into the night with no word of a deal after earlier confidence that one was imminent. Top negotiators had predicted a deal by midnight, yet remained holed up in back offices at the ...
Texas Senate votes to weaken university regents
The Texas Senate gave final approval Wednesday to a measure placing new limits on university regents' power to fire campus presidents, sending the bill to Gov. Rick Perry in the latest move in a struggle between the Legislature and the executive office over higher education. Lawmakers have been engaged in ...
Guns on campus bill heads to full Texas Senate
A bill to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into Texas college buildings and classrooms got a significant boost in the state Senate on Tuesday, but it remains unclear if it has enough momentum to become law. Even if it does, the bill has been scaled back ...
Texas House votes to weaken university regents
Texas lawmakers moved to assert more control over state higher education on Monday when the House voted to require that most university regents be appointed while lawmakers are in session, and limit their powers to fire campus presidents. University system regents are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the ...
Hundreds of House bills dead _ at least for now
The final gun for passing legislation proposed by lawmakers in the Texas House sounded Friday, killing hundreds of bills, most of which never even made it to the floor for debate. While bills still have a few more days to win approval in the Senate or be revived as a ...
Obama, in Texas, presses middle-class jobs agenda
Offering a more upbeat view of the economy, President Barack Obama resurrected his jobs proposals Thursday, advancing modest initiatives as he pushed for action on more ambitious efforts that face resistance from congressional Republicans. "We're poised for progress," he declared. The president chose the bustling Texas capital as a backdrop ...
Judge rules for cheerleaders in Bible banner suit
A judge ruled Wednesday that cheerleaders at a Southeast Texas high school can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games. But the ruling might not have settled the issue of whether the banners are protected free speech, according to an attorney for the cheerleaders' school district. State District ...
Perry: Special session if no $1.8B in tax cuts
With still more than two weeks to go in Texas' legislative session, Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday it's too early to issue ultimatums to lawmakers. Then he promptly issued one: Pass more tax cuts or work through the summer. Perry threatened to call legislators back after the session ends May ...
Recent editorials from Texas newspapers
Waco Tribune-Herald. May 5, 2013. If no one tells the feds, then are we responsible for disasters such as West's? Two weeks ago, with the ruins of the West Fertilizer Company still smoldering, preliminary reporting by the Trib suggested that, for all the state and federal agencies charged with oversight, ...
NRA, gun control advocates say fight far from over
Leaders of the National Rifle Association, an influential gun rights group, told members Saturday that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, but they vowed that none in the organization will ever have to surrender their weapons. Proponents of gun control also asserted that they are in ...
Texas House passes 12 firearms bills on 'gun day'
The Texas House approved a batch of bills Saturday to further soften gun laws that were already among the country's most firearms-friendly, allowing college students to carry handguns in class, putting potentially armed marshals in public schools and exempting the state from any future federal bans on assault rifles, high-capacity ...
NRA official: 'Culture war' more than gun rights
The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual convention Friday with a warning to its members they are engaged in a "culture war" that stretches beyond gun rights, further ramping up emotions surrounding the gun control debate. NRA First Vice President James Porter, a Birmingham, Ala., attorney who will assume ...
Fresh off victory, NRA holds convention in Houston
The National Rifle Association has spent much of the past year under siege, ardently defending gun rights following mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut and fighting back against mounting pressure for stricter laws in Washington and state capitols across the country. Now, after winning a major victory over President Barack ...
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