Senator Kay Hutchison of Texas

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Tuesday that if elected governor, her education plan would focus on bringing more technology to the classroom, recruiting and retaining teachers, lowering the high school dropout rate and helping school districts find ways to save money. Hutchison, who is challenging Gov. Rick Perry in the Republican primary for governor in March, unveiled her plans in a biotechnology lab at the Collin County Community College District in the Dallas suburb of Plano. "Now is the time for us to be really creative using technology," said Hutchison, who said she has approached companies about developing an e-learning device, less than ... Read Full Story

An indisputable Washington insider, Kay Bailey Hutchison has been so close to the federal government's levers of power in her three Senate terms that former Vice President Dick Cheney has endorsed her over another Republican. The ultimate incumbent, Rick Perry is Texas' longest-serving governor heading into his 10th year at the helm of a no-term-limit state — and the Republican wants four more years. A Texas-sized brawl is under way between Hutchison and Perry in a GOP primary race that's pitting the public's anger at Washington against its anti-incumbent fervor. "I'm going to do everything I can to stop the government takeover of health ... Read Full Story

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is planning to hold onto her Senate seat until after Texas' March gubernatorial primaries are over. Hutchison is challenging Gov. Rick Perry in the state's Republican primary. Campaign officials provided The Associated Press a copy of a speech Hutchison plans to give to Republican women in Galveston, Texas, on Saturday. In it, Hutchison plans to say she is stepping down in 2010 regardless of who wins the Republican primary for governor. But she says there are too many important issues facing Congress for her to quit this fall as she had planned. The senator says in the written speech ... Read Full Story

Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has introduced legislation that would grant victims and families of the deceased victims of the attack at Fort Hood the same legal status as though the attack happened in a battle zone. Named the Fort Hood Victims and Families Benefits Protection Act, Hutchison was joined by Senators John Cornyn, James Inhofe, and Joeseph Lieberman in introducing the legislation, also closed patterned to H.R. 4008, a House bill introduced by U.S. Rep John Carter (R-TX) Tuesday. Hutchison released this statement: "The soldiers who were gunned down at Fort Hood were targeted by a terrorist because they were soldiers about to ... Read Full Story

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison would have to take a pay cut if she's elected governor, but her husband's income, a multimillion-dollar investment portfolio and other assets have already contributed to significant family wealth. Hutchison's husband, Ray, a prominent Dallas bond attorney, makes slightly less than a half million dollars a year in combined salary and deferred compensation, records provided by her campaign show. The Associated Press is examining the personal wealth of major gubernatorial candidates. A big stake in Exxon-Mobil, valued at between $250,000 and $500,000, along with other stock holdings and equity investments, have also helped provide the family yearly dividend income ... Read Full Story

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Tuesday some people are suggesting that she remain in the Senate as she challenges fellow Republican Rick Perry for governor, instead of resigning this fall as she said would. Hutchison said on Dallas-Fort Worth radio station WBAP that she's not sure whether she will resign from the Senate before the end of the year or even before the GOP primary in March, when she faces Perry, who is seeking a third full term. She said she wants to remain there long enough to fight President Barack Obama's health care proposal. "I want to stay and fight with every ... Read Full Story

Latest Numbers: 46% to 35% According to the latest Rasmussen, State Sovereignty advocate, incumbent Governor Rick Perry has pulled comfortably ahead of moderate-to-conservative US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for the upcoming GOP primary. Perry recently garnered negative attention from the liberal media in Texas and Nationally, for saying to a local GOP County group, "Obama's policies are leading us to Socialism..." Perry had previously told a crowd at a Tea Party rally in Austin ,last March that if things continued the way they were going Texas might consider, the "seccssion" option. With that, previously skeptical libertarians jumped on board his campaign. From Rasmussen : ... Read Full Story