The veteran president of the Texas Senate and the new speaker of the House did not start out on the same page.

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Democrats will serve as House committee vice chairs, which some lawmakers said harks back to the Texas tradition of power sharing. But vice chairs don't have nearly the power enjoyed by chairs, who can push or kill legislation and are better positioned to pass legislation.

Meanwhile in the Panhandle, Republicans were less excited that Burrows won the speaker contest thanks largely to Democrats.

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The envy of every school choice state” is how a bill author teased legislation designed to bring school choice to the Lone Star State. The night before Senate Bill 2 was posted, Sen. Brandon Creighton told a group of local Republican party donors in Austin that the bill answers many objections opponents and skeptics had

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The newly elected Texas House Speaker, Dustin Burrows, is well positioned to bring school choice to Texas and achieve other long sought conservative goals.

These people normally don’t support state funds going to special interest groups, but they do in this case. Vouchers are also supported by people with lower incomes in large cites who don’t have the means to send their children to private schools,

A key part is the requirement that the GOP House Caucus demanded. Committee Chairs are to be members from the majority party in the House, currently Republican. But the rules state that Vice Chairs are to be members of the minority party, currently Democrats. HR 4 also requires the two leadership positions to work together.

Conservative activists in the GOP caucus called any power sharing with the minority party a betrayal of Republican voters.