The Brief: Top Texas News for Nov. 28, 2012
The Big Conversation:
So much for Texas Republicans losing their clout in Congress next year.
House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday announced, as expected, that U.S. Reps. Jeb Hensarling of Dallas and Lamar Smith of San Antonio had been selected to chair the House Financial Services and Science, Space and Technology committees, respectively. The full House Republican caucus will vote on the chairmanships today.
But hand-wringing — aired publicly before the election — over other Texans like Rep. Pete Sessions of Dallas losing out on plum GOP appointments appears to have been unwarranted.
For one, Boehner on Tuesday confirmed that Sessions ...
Comments (3)
Rudy Gonzales
Yep! Time for every Texan to get mobilized and call, write, e-mail and fax a letter to Re. Michael McCaul to get the Dream Act that was ready and set to go to the Senate floor in 2010 and was never brought for a vote. This other wishy-washy BS put out by K.B. Hutchison and Jon Kyl are nothing but washed down legislation that create too many hurdles to jump through. The 2014 Mid-term election is a-coming!
JC DemocratofTejas
There are those that say we’ve got extra money. There is no such thing as extra money." — Gov. Rick Perry in Waco on Tuesday...he should know. Double dipping the state's funds aka ricki perri
WHY DOES RICK PERRY HATE CHRISTMAS? Why can't he decorate the downtown streets in the Austin like in the past? Did all the money go for his $10,000 a month gated community homestead for the last 4 years, while the mansion was being rebuilt? How is adjusting to the mansion going for ya?
Bert Chadwick
Now is time to watch out. All red neck racist politicians are loose. A free for all.