We told you in a Friday post about the state GOP's new effort to try to play in state House races next year. Now, Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, is on the eve of launching GOPAC Texas. "GOPAC TX will be...
When House Administration Committee Chairman Charlie Geren today passed a little-noticed bill about "ghost employees," it knocked some cobwebs from memory. The bill by Geren, R-Fort Worth (right, photo courtesy of Kelly Geren & Searcy), would certainly discourage House members'...
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...
"I'm officially a numbers guy now," Rep. Joe Driver, R-Garland, said after some mental calisthenics early today. Driver -- stop the presses -- attended his first budget-writing committee meeting this morning, even though they cranked up, umm, 12 days ago....
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,...
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...
Here's a measure of House harmony these days: The House easily cleared a required four-fifths hurdle to suspend the state Constitution's prohibition against passing bills during the session's first 60 days. The vote, usually routine, was 140-3. Two years ago,...
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