Rick Perry Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Rick Perry.
2016: Rare same-state pairings in the early stages
The early stages of the 2016 presidential race feature an unusual cluster of high-powered potential candidates hailing from the same states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Rep. Paul Ryan among them. Walker gained Republican Party cult-figure status when he beat back a labor union attempt to oust him from office ...
House gives tentative OK to fixed college tuition
Public universities in Texas would have to offer students fixed four-year tuition prices under a bill that has cleared a key House vote. Gov. Rick Perry has hammered public universities about making college more affordable. A proposal by Republican state Rep. Dan Branch would offer locked-in tuition plans that prohibit ...
Water fund bill dies in Texas House
A plan to transfer $2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund to create a water infrastructure bank failed Monday because the author broke a parliamentary rule about when such a bill could be considered. The error was pointed out by House Democrats who were frustrated that the Republican-controlled Legislature was ...
Guns on campus bill scheduled for Texas House vote
One of the top pro-gun bills before Texas lawmakers this session was green-lighted Monday for a House floor vote this weekend, and a top backer predicted approval there for the plan to allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry their handguns into college classrooms. The Calendars Committee scheduled the floor ...
Medicaid problems hinge of doctor, nurse pay
The first question many doctors ask when new patients call for appointments is how they intend to pay. If the answer is Medicaid, the doctor can expect to lose money. The Texas Legislature has been balancing the state's budget by intentionally paying doctors 40 to 75 percent less for Medicaid ...
Perry disgusted by cartoon depicting explosion
Gov. Rick Perry said Friday he's disgusted a California newspaper ran a cartoon that depicts him boasting about booming business in Texas, then shows an explosion, a week after a fertilizer plant explosion killed 14 people in a Texas town. Perry said he wants an apology from the Sacramento Bee ...
House OKs emergency spending for schools, fires
Firefighter training following a deadly explosion in West, money to arm Texas prosecutors and an extra $500 million for public schools were ways that House lawmakers Friday considered spending the final dollars in the current state budget. Not all the proposals survived. But the House eventually gave overwhelming approval to ...
Obama consoles families, survivors of Texas blast
President Barack Obama consoled a rural Texas community rocked by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, telling mourners Thursday they are not alone in their grief and they will have the nation's support to rebuild from the devastation. "This small town's family is bigger now," Obama said during a memorial service ...
Firefighters gather for Texas plant blast memorial
Firefighters and first responders from all over Texas have gathered in Waco to honor those who died in last week's fertilizer plant explosion in West. Video messages from family members were played Thursday during a memorial service in Waco, about 90 miles south of Dallas. President Barack Obama, Texas Gov. ...
Rice welcomes leaders to Bush library ceremony
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has welcomed world and national leaders to the dedication ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Rice introduced several former and current world leaders Thursday, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar She also noted the ...
Czechs to send funds to blast-hit Texas town
The Czech Republic plans to donate 4 million koruna (some $200,000) to help the Texas town of West recover from a devastating fertilizer plant explosion. The government decided to the provide aid in solidarity because a significant number of people in the town of 2,700 have Czech roots. The blast ...
Senate OKs Rainy Day Fund spending for schools
Texas public schools pummeled by historic budget cuts in 2011 would recover nearly 70 percent of that funding under a Senate plan approved late Tuesday and made possible by Republicans softening on a longstanding reluctance to tap the state's Rainy Day Fund for education. A major part of the bipartisan ...
Texas town where plant blew starts long recovery
From money, food and clothing to new appliances and crews armed with chain saws, help is pouring into the tiny Texas town where a fertilizer plant exploded. As the donations come in, how long and how much it will take for West to come back aren't yet known. Residents have ...
Texas town grieves for dead first-responders
Buck Uptmor didn't have to go to West Fertilizer Co. when the fire started. He wasn't a firefighter like his brother and cousin, who raced toward the plant. But a ranch of horses next to the flames needed to be moved to safety. "He went to help a friend," said ...
Tea Party flexes muscles in Texas GOP Senate win
Once again, the Republican Establishment has been sent a strong message by the voters, this time in Texas, as longshot candidate Rafael "Ted" Cruz won an easy win Tuesday over the sitting Lt. Governor of the Lone Star State in a battle for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. "Tonight’s ...
Perry Looks For Turnaround
Well behind in the polls, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is using a new internet video to try to combat worries about whether he won't be in the GOP Presidential race for very long. "I have never quit a day in my life," Perry says. "I have never quit in the ...
The Iowa GOP Jumble
While waiting for a Mitt Romney event last night outside Des Moines, I ran into a number of my colleagues in the political press corps. We agreed on one thing - we can't predict what's next in this Republican race for the White House. The polls in recent days have ...
Iowa GOP Debate
While there were no knockdowns or gaffes, Thursday night's final GOP debate here in Iowa gave voters the green light on a final 18 day sprint to the finish line in the Hawkeye State, as Republicans zinged each other and fired on the Obama Administration. The Fox News anchors who ...
Perry v Cain
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is denying charges leveled by Herman Cain that Perry’s campaign is responsible for leaking stories to the press about sexual harassment allegations leveled at Cain over the past week. “Our campaign had nothing to do with it,” said Perry, as this story finally begins to get ...
Romney v Perry
As the Republican candidates for President leave Sin City after their debate on Tuesday night, it's clear that more sharp elbows are in the forecast as the GOP hopefuls try to separate themselves from each other. It was a feisty debate on the Las Vegas Strip, as the candidates began ...
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