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
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