Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert last week enunciated a policy in which Congress will pass bills only if most House Republicans back them.

The State Department will soon begin issuing passports that carry information about the traveler in a computer chip.

Cost increases across the state have some looking to transfer

Today, Senator Eliot Shapleigh is releasing Chapter 12 of his Texas Borderlands: Frontier of the Americas report.

On November 3, 2004, the day U.S. Senator John Kerry announced that he would not ask for a recount or delay the Presidential election results, several people called Senator Eliot Shapleigh seeking encouragement. Here is what he wrote:

"For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach, those of their parents."

Last week Congressional Republicans voted to change their rule that required an indicted leader to relinquish his post.

A decade after Tennessee inaugurated a health care plan for the state's most vulnerable residents that was hailed as a model for the nation, the program is once more being held up as a model - of failure in an era of soaring medical costs.

This week, House Republicans bent their accountability rules to protect their majority leader from what they feel is a partisan Texas prosecutor.

On Tuesday, House Republicans unanimously elected Tom DeLay to serve another term as House majority leader, despite his unsavory record when it comes to abiding by accepted Congressional standards of conduct.

Texas leaders sound upbeat about the chances of finally overhauling the education finance system during the upcoming legislative session, but old controversies already are being rekindled.

The Bush administration is eyeing an overhaul of the tax code that would drastically cut, if not eliminate, taxes on savings and investment.

Even though UTEP has one of the nation's poorest student populations, under tuition deregulation, UTEP chose to increase tuition by almost 28 percent within one year.

The Supreme Court overturned a Texas death sentence on Monday while delivering its latest rebuke to the way the death penalty is being handled by judges in Texas.

Texas' top two leaders Tuesday laid out ambitious goals for improving public schools in the legislative session.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst promises his holiday gift to the Legislature will be a Senate proposal on school finance, one that both cuts taxes and supports economic growth.

The resounding victory of California's $3 billion ballot initiative for embryonic stem cell studies may have the unintended consequence of slowing research on the national level.

The American tax system is too complicated. It is a drag on the economy because it does so little to encourage saving and investment.

University's tuition committee to suggest 'modest' increase in 2005-06 rates.

The global deployment of work has its critics, but it holds huge opportunities for rich and poor countries alike.