Republican members of the Texas House endorsed Speaker Dade Phelan’s bid for reelection in a nonbinding vote on Saturday. An official vote from the entire Texas House will take place in January.
of more conservative Republicans who want to ban Democratic committee chairs. It’s been a longtime tradition to allow the minority party to chair committees, despite being out of power.
Following the endorsement, Tom Oliverson, chair of the Texas House Republican Caucus said in a statement that the GOP caucus is "unified in our choice" for Phelan. Phelan has publicly defended the practice that allows Democrats to chair House committees. and said in September that if reelected as speaker, he would appoint the same proportion of Democratic committee chairs for the next session.13 Democratic committee chairs at the start of the last session, out of 34 standing committees.
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