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April 22, 2015      6:15 PM

Updated: House appoints budget conferees and seems united on most fronts

The “Big Three Breakfast” blows up while House members cheer the fact that they don’t agree with the Senate on the budget

With tensions growing between the Texas House and Senate – to the point where R.G. Ratcliffe at Texas Monthly tells us the “Big Three Breakfast” blew up Wednesday morning – the lower chamber of The Legislature officially declared it doesn’t agree with the upper chamber’s changes to the spending plan and appointed its budget conferees. House members, by the way, were cheering as the motion was made not to concur with the Senate’s alterations.

The House’s representation on the conference committee will be Reps. John Otto, Sylvester Turner, Trent Ashby, Larry Gonzales, and Sarah Davis. Otto and Turner have negotiated a budget previously. Ashby, Gonzales, and Davis will be doing this for the first time.

Prior to those appointments, some Tea Party House members tried in vain on the floor to “handcuff” the conferees as far as what they can discuss. They did so during the votes on motions to instruct the conferees.

By Scott Braddock