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February 13, 2025 2:50 PM
The team that brought Burrows to power includes the “baby chairmen” from 2019 along with the old guard under Speaker Straus; placing agitators in some key spots amounts to rewarding bad behavior
In
the days and evenings to come, plenty will be written and said –the truly provocative
and insightful comments will be made at Austin bars – about the new Texas
House committee assignments.
So,
let’s start the public conversation about it with this: It’s not the worst thing in
the world when Texas Capitol rumors turn out to largely be true. With
some exceptions, the rumblings of the last few weeks were mostly borne out by
the committee assignments announced on the Texas House floor Thursday.
The
chairmanships reflect some continuity with the Speakerships of Dennis Bonnen
and Dade Phelan. But they also tap the experience of more senior
Republicans who were partially pushed out when Bonnen rose to power in 2019 in
favor of the “baby chairmen” that year including Chair Jeff Leach and
Speaker Dustin Burrows himself.
There
are already outsiders complaining about which Republicans will hold gavels but keeping
the leadership team at least partially intact is something that members undoubtedly
voted for when they chose Burrows over Rep. David Cook as their
presiding officer.
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By Scott Braddock
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