Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

President Bush vetoed a children’s health measure on Wednesday afternoon, effectively killing Democrats’ hopes of expanding a popular government program aimed at providing insurance to children in lower-income and middle-income families.

Community groups in El Paso are watching the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's newly appointed commissioner. Wednesday was Commissioner Bryan W. Shaw's first agenda meeting at the agency.

Houston state Rep. Rick Noriega formally filed as a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Monday, assailing incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn as a politician who has pandered to extremists on immigration, misled voters on Iraq and turned his back on average Texans.

Around 25 years ago, American business — and the American political system — bought into the idea that greed is good. Now, with the sub-prime crisis and housing slump, the bill is coming due, and almost everyone — that is, almost everyone except the people responsible — is having to pay.

At a recent Capitol event, Craddick sidestepped questions about speculation that he and his allies will spend millions in efforts to defeat his critics.. GOP leaders in the Craddick revolt, Reps. Charlie Geren of Fort Worth, Byron Cook of Corsicana and Pat Haggerty of El Paso are likely targets.

Texas doesn't get much credit when it comes to the fight against global warming. Texas easily leads the nation and is the world's seventh-largest polluter of carbon dioxide emissions. And some of the top political leaders, including Gov. Rick Perry, still question whether man is contributing to climate change.

Politics, poverty and illegal immigration intersect here to make health care a thornier issue than in most states. And Texas, with legends of independence and gritty self-reliance, has rarely been at the forefront in creating government services.

We're not who we think we are. The 'rags to riches' story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the very top.

Where there is outrage, there finally may be political opportunity. Or so some Democrats are hoping, following news that the tuition deregulation law is about to dig even deeper into thousands of family budgets.

Illegal Latino immigrants do not cause a drag on the U.S. health care system as some critics have contended and in fact get less care than Latinos in the country legally, researchers said on Monday.

In a lucrative new form of fiscal alchemy, a growing number of hospitals, working with a range of financial companies, are squeezing revenue from patients with little or no health insurance.

The State Children's Health Insurance Program is in need of a booster shot, but Congress can't seem to bring itself to administer it. Now is not the time to play politics — on either side — with the health of our children.

How much more money will be extorted from students — and their families — just so they can join or stay in the middle class?

I had no idea at the time that I was being a pawn in a plot to undermine our American way of life. I had no idea that I was being fed socialism in a sugar cube. I thought the sugar cube contained serum to thwart polio. Little did I know. I was in third grade. How could I?

The nation’s food supply is at risk, its drugs are potentially dangerous and its citizens’ lives are at stake because the Food and Drug Administration is desperately short of money and poorly organized, according to an alarming report by agency advisers.

The Commission on Environmental Quality has morphed into the Commission for Protecting Business Interests. The agency charged with clearing our polluted skies has become a leading opponent of tougher ozone standards aimed at protecting public health.

Quietly, ASARCO just picked your pocket—and not many in El Paso know. By filing bankruptcy in Corpus Christi, ASARCO has delivered a tab for nearly $11 billion to US taxpayers all across the West. Here’s how.

Texas border mayors and county judges are to host a “21st Century Secure Trade Summit” in Austin next March to ensure their priorities are heard during the presidential election campaign.

Chris Comer, who has been the Texas Education Agency's director of science curriculum for more than nine years, offered her resignation this month.

Some of Texas' biggest industries have an important ally in trying to keep the Environmental Protection Agency from ordering nationwide smog cuts: the state's top clean-air officials.