Texas Speaker Dade Phelan to face runoff in GOP primary

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• Lindsey Graham Shrugs Off ‘Catch-and-Kill’ Scheme to Help Trump Win Election
• Republicans fume over House speaker’s fundraiser for ‘turncoat’ Texas rep who called far-right lawmakers ‘scumbags’
• David Covey forces runoff with Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, who led AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment
• Taylor Swift Makes Chart History With ‘The Tortured Poets Department'
• Johnson calls on Columbia University president to resign

But conservative grassroots activists said the House had not gone far enough on conservative priorities like banning gender-affirming care for transgender children and have often butted heads with Phelan. Critics attacked him for appointing Democrats to leadership positions in the chamber, following a long-held chamber tradition to appoint members of the minority party as committee chairs. Phelan has not budged on the issue, indicating he once again plans to allow some Democratic chairs and arguing that the Texas House operates better on a bipartisan basis and eschewing the divisiveness seen in Washington, D.C. Phelan guided the House through the 2021 legislative sessions, which some observers called “the most conservative” in state history.

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Last week, I read a story about the local county hospital joining the 60% of rural Texas hospitals that no longer deliver babies. We should not leave this session without a firm commitment to reversing this trend. Because in my dictionary, the definition of "pro-life" includes ensuring access to affordable healthcare for all, especially Texas mothers and their babies. "It is a privilege to serve as a member of this distinguished body, and I am once again humbled by the opportunity to serve as Speaker of the Texas House," Phelan said in his opening day remarks.

Republicans fume over House speaker’s fundraiser for ‘turncoat’ Texas rep who called far-right lawmakers ‘scumbags’

I’d encourage the speaker to go back and perhaps take up the migrant bill, the bill to deal with closing the border, so we can deal with a real crisis that New York has. Johnson urged that the “madness has to stop” and said Jewish students had shared with him experiences of “heinous acts of bigotry” because of their faith. Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House, holds a gun once owned by famous outlaw Jesse James on Jan. 23, 1930. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (center), shown here surrounded by House Republicans, holds up a copy of the "Contract With America" during a speech on April 7, 1995 on the steps of the U.S.

David Covey forces runoff with Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, who led AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment

Texas State Troopers in riot gear during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas (UT) in Austin, Texas, on April 24. Students are reportedly also holding a sit-in in another campus building. The statement said the peaceful, planned action was disrupted by police and state troopers, who responded violently and “made our entire community unsafe”. The number comes from the Austin Lawyers Guild, a leftist group that provides protest legal defense. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, and John Thune, his deputy, wrote to Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, and Miguel Cardona, the education secretary, calling demonstrators “antisemitic, pro-terrorist mobs”. There’s a lot more responsibilities and crises to be dealt with in Washington.

Republican Party of Texas Censures Speaker Dade Phelan - Republican Party of Texas

Republican Party of Texas Censures Speaker Dade Phelan.

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A group of professors at New York University released an open letter denying that any NYU-affiliated protesters had engaged in antisemitism or intimidation of others. Police arrested dozens participating in peaceful student-led protests against the war on Gaza on Wednesday. The police crackdowns came after Columbia University canceled in-person classes on Monday in response to protesters setting up tent encampments at its New York City campus last week.

Tax rates a point of contention in House District 21 runoff - Beaumont Enterprise

Tax rates a point of contention in House District 21 runoff.

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Johnson calls on Columbia University president to resign

Prior to the GOP's 40-year sentence as the minority party, several of its speakers had risen to the top rung largely on their personal popularity among their colleagues. One was Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, who led the party in the House during two brief interludes of majority status after World War II. Both lasted only the minimum two years, the first ending with Democratic Harry S. Truman's surprise White House win in 1948. Martin was back four years later when Eisenhower was first elected president in 1952, but that tour at the top was cut short by his party's sharp losses two years later. The well-respected No. 2 Republican, Eric Cantor of Virginia, had lost his primary in 2014. The No. 3, McCarthy, soon ran aground over remarks in a TV interview and lacked the votes to be speaker.

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The members give the speaker the authority to appoint the membership of each standing committee, subject to rules on seniority, and to designate the chair and vice chair for each committee. Under the rules, the speaker is responsible for referring all proposed legislation to committee, subject to the committee jurisdictions set forth in the rules. The rules also allow the speaker to appoint conference committees, to create select committees, and to direct committees to conduct interim studies when the legislature is not in session. He acknowledged that the House passed border security bills last year, but said it was too little, too late.

If you found the reporting above valuable, please consider making a donation to support it here. Your gift helps pay for everything you find on texasstandard.org and KUT.org. “This runoff is not a defeat, but rather a call to arms for all who stand for the principles of the America First movement,” Paxton posted on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. But when it comes to the future of the Texas Republican Party, this race for a small district on the Gulf Coast is perhaps the most important. He did not emerge entirely unscathed from the debate, however, drawing flak from the right for supporting an initial proposal to exempt children who were already receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapies.

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The governor did not endorse either anyone in the primary, a blow to the Republican speaker. The governor did not endorse either anyone in the primary, a blow to the Republican speaker. There is no Democrat running, so the winner of the May runoff election will gain the seat. Democrats have been in the House minority for 22 years, unable to pass bills on their own, but they are not entirely powerless.

The members give the Speaker the authority to appoint themembership of each standing committee, subject to rules on seniority, and todesignate the chair and vice chair for each committee. Under the rules, theSpeaker is responsible for referring all proposed legislation to committee,subject to the committee jurisdictions set forth in the rules. The rulesalso allow the Speaker to appoint conference committees, to create selectcommittees, and to direct committees to conduct interim studies when thelegislature is not in session.

The speaker is elected from the legislature of Texas, by a vote of its fellow members.[1] On the first day of each regular session, the members may nominate a fellow member, and a record vote is held to determine who the speaker will be. The Secretary of State calls the House to order, and presides over the chamber until a speaker is elected. The Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Texas House of Representatives. The Speaker's main duties are to conduct meetings of the House, appoint committees, and enforce the Rules of the House. The current speaker is Dade Phelan, a Republican from Beaumont, who was elected Speaker on January 12, 2021. Locally, he touted his record delivering funding for district priorities like Lamar University and flood control over his decade in office.

Increasingly exasperated with his untenable predicament, Boehner simply resigned in October of that year. Those eight years actually made Hastert the longest-serving Republican speaker in history. But any luster left after 2006 was lost when he went to prison for bank fraud charges stemming from hush money payments he had made to a former student he admitted to having sexually abused decades earlier. Greene had vowed to press her challenge after Johnson announced a strategy to pass $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan earlier this month.

The party settled on Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who had not sought the gavel but agreed to take it. Like Johnson an era later, Hastert was a relatively quiet member of the leadership who enjoyed goodwill generally in the rank and file. Hastert was speaker through the last two Clinton years and first six of the George W. Bush presidency.

But he voluntarily resigned after the GOP lost badly in the 2006 midterms, a defeat Bush called "a thumpin' " at the time. The Los Angeles Police Department arrested approximately 50 protestors at the University of Southern California after campus police gave a dispersal order to demonstrators, according to a CNN crew at the scene. Regardless of the outcomes in the upcoming runoff election and potential speakership battle, Phelan has already made a reluctant piece of House history in being forced into a runoff. "Dade Phelan has dodged debates since the beginning of the race for Texas House District 21," Covey said on Thursday in announcing his newest campaign ad. "Why? Dade Phelan can’t defend his liberal record to the people of Southeast Texas."

He and his family reside together in Southeast Texas, where Speaker Phelan was born and raised. He received his bachelor’s degree in Government and Business from The University of Texas at Austin. Phil King, a longtime Republican state representative from Weatherford, replaced her as the senator for District 10 in North Texas.