Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

Three months after Gov. Rick Perry fast-tracked permits for power generators to build a fleet of coal-burning plants, state regulators changed the rules in a way that would make it easier for the permits to be issued.

The Republican Party just doesn’t want some people voting. And in this story from Houston, Republicans are willing to trade the health of elderly citizens in exchange for political power.

Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn on Wednesday recommended the state terminate its contract with Accenture Ltd., a private company hired to administer health and human services, including CHIP, to low-income residents.

Eliot Shapleigh should remain El Paso’s state senator in Austin. We need experienced voices in Austin, and voters should return him to the District 29 state Senate seat.

Why is the Texas Republican Party putting $25,000 of its own money on the table and paying campaign staff to defeat El Paso’s most effective Senator? The answer is simple. It’s because Sen. Shapleigh is the 11th vote for Democrats in the Senate.

Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says the Texas House of Representatives is the reason why the Legislature hasn't funded a full-fledged medical school in El Paso.

President Bush’s record of fiscal incompetence and mismanagement, and Republicans’ close ties with special interests, have helped lead to both lower wages and skyrocketing costs for basic necessities like gas, health care, and college tuition.

Is the state doing enough to ensure that Spanish-speaking families do not face obstacles in enrolling their children in CHIP? That's one question raised in a new report on programs that provide free or low-cost health insurance for Texas children.

Illegal immigration is an eminently solvable problem, if only members of Congress will show the political will to compromise and work together. It's one of the few major issues on which President Bush and many Democrats largely agree.

Austin lobbyist, Ed Small, noted that under the new margin tax, a company could lose money and still owe taxes. “It is a taxpayer's nightmare,” said Dale Craymer, an economist with the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association.

On October 9, Senator Shapleigh talked about skyrocketing college tuition costs and called for a three-year moratorium on tuition and fee increases. Students are bearing the brunt of statewide budget cuts in higher education.

A bankrupt copper giant facing billions of dollars in pollution claims across the nation pretended for years to recycle metals while illegally burning hazardous waste in a notorious El Paso smelter, according to a newly released EPA document

As President Bush seizes another part of our Constitution, he goes on the attack not against terrorists, but in a fit of partisan politics -- against Democrats.

Senator Eliot Shapleigh worked with a group of students from UTEP, as well as students from other universities, to address the issues related to graduation rates and together they came up with UTEP 2015 report.

Rising health premiums are prompting firms to drop coverage or employees to forgo it, an annual survey shows. Premiums rose by 7.7% in the last year, more than double the rate of inflation or increase in income.

On Saturday, September 23, I went door knocking with Senator Shapleigh. It gave me an opportunity to relay a funny story to the Senator about my time in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Eliot Shapleigh is a fifth generation El Pasoan with deep roots in our community that date back to 1846. His wife of 28 years is Lee Shapleigh. His children are Zoe, a junior at Princeton, and Ben, who is currently a senior at Coronado H.S.

On September 17, the El Paso Times reported that with years of achievement and the near-completion of our Medical School, Senator Shapleigh’s opponent seems to be playing politics with our future at the 11th hour.

A member of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus has asked its chairman to begin formulating a strategy to counter a raft of immigrant-bashing bills that have already been pre-filed for the 80th Legislature.

UTEP has become a major issue in the campaigns of Sen. Eliot Shapleigh and challenger Dee Margo for the Texas State Senate District 29 race on Nov. 7.