The Latest Breaking News from Dade Phelan

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan indicated Monday that he wants to wait on a proposal from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick calling for $50 million to outfit police with bulletproof shields to combat mass shootings.

DALLAS — In the days since an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself inside an elementary school classroom in Uvalde and fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, the police’s narrative of the events leading up to and during the massacre has shifted by the day.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced Friday the creation of a special investigative committee to examine the Robb Elementary School shooting.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for special legislative committees to examine what legislation and action might be taken to prevent future school shootings.

AUSTIN, Texas — An emotional Gov. Greg Abbott was interrupted by an equally emotional Beto O’Rourke as the Republican governor and other state officials sought Wednesday to discuss a school shooting in Uvalde a day earlier.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is scrambling to come up with nearly a half-billion dollars to pay the growing tab for its decision to post National Guard soldiers at the southern border.

According to the most recent campaign finance reports made to the Texas Ethics Commission, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan has raised $2,905,247 and spent $2,536,948 between Jan. 1, 2021 and Feb. 19, 2021. Rep. Phelan is the number nine fundraiser in state politics in the 2022 election cycle so far.

AUSTIN, Texas — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick cast the debate over LGBTQ rights as a religious fight between God-fearing people and those who lack faith in a higher power.