The House under Straus has had such a love in this session, we've been expecting hippies and Yoko Ono on the floor any day now. Well, this afternoon, things got a little more, ahem, House-like. We had our first roll...
"Craddick D" Harold Dutton of Houston, who yesterday tried to challenge a denial of his request to swap committee assignments, just withdrew his motion to contest Speaker Joe Straus' ruling. Dutton said he knew he'd be turned down....
Harold Dutton went to the back mike today to pepper Speaker Joe Straus -- again -- about whether members unhappy with their committee assignments can swap. Last week, Straus told Dutton the rules don't provide for swaps. Today, Dutton asked...
While House Speaker Joe Straus called it a "good" meeting, Rep. Harold Dutton begs to differ. Dutton said today that his one on one conflab with Straus last week raised more worries than it salved. Dutton said Straus, R-San Antonio,...
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, has heard enough grumbling about committee assignments. "Members need to get to work," he said today. Straus (at right, AP photo) dismissed talk that many members are unhappy over committees; said rules don't...
Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, one of the supporters of former Speaker Tom Craddick who's disgruntled under the Straus regime, just went to the back mike in the House to question the new speaker. Can members swap committee assignments, Dutton asked....
Some allies of Speaker Joe Straus fret that potentially hostile House veterans are using their seniority to snare seats on the powerful State Affairs Committee, which handles hot button social issues as well as big-dollar matters affecting electric and phone...
The House just voted to approve new rules, 147-1. Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, cast the only no. He objected to putting juvenile corrections under the same committee that oversees adult prisons. Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, who normally doesn't vote,...
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