Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

So, Texans, your choice: good schools, with an education tax on income? Or do we keep driving Texas and our children to the bottom?

El Paso and Houston ISD consultant says Texas has been down this road before

Joint author of HB 1348 says Texas' political system is corrupt

A bill in Washington requires schools and licensed daycare operators within the old Asarco copper smelter to allow inspectors on site to check for lead and arsenic.

Study cites a high number of low-paid workers for the dearth of health insurance.

Throughout the 79th Legislative Session, Senator Eliot Shapleigh will be writing a notes column from the Capitol that will allow you to see what is happening behind the scenes in Austin.

One after another, the few protections Texas provided for its poorest residents were systematically eroded or abolished entirely.

Tony Blair's Message

The United States spends far more on health care than other advanced countries. Yet we don't appear to receive more medical services.

Lawmakers may find that nothing short of a state income tax will solve this state’s education funding woes.

The Pentagon introduced proposed regulations yesterday aimed at preventing marketing practices that have exposed military personnel.

Letter from Senator Eliot Shapleigh to his constituents.

Military and Reservist families particularly vulnerable

As much as we'd like to support the Senate Education Committee's school funding bill, we can't in its current form.

Dewhurst & Co. may make, break legislative session.

In 30 years of culture wars, few conservative Christian standard bearers have traveled farther in American politics than Ralph Reed.

Under pending state budget plans, Texas schools may not get funding for new textbook purchases in some subjects.

A long-overdue bill, passed this week by the state Senate, would give Texas jurors an alternative to the death penalty.

The key to reopening the Speaking Rock Casino, he told tribal leaders, was the stealthy passage of federal legislation.

A long delay in paying for a fund-raiser at an eatery owned by scandal-plagued Jack Abramoff could prove embarrassing to a GOP Mr. Clean