The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Dustin Burrows and his BurrowCrat leadership team’s proposed House rules (at 4 a.m. for a vote this afternoon – can you say “hiding something?”) try a giant fake out on voters knowing local media will ignorantly report it their way.
While the Burrows’ rules end minority party (Democrat) major committee chairmanships, the rules actually enhance Democrat power by making them automatically vice chairs with new powers, enough to gum up the works. Even worse, Burrows’ eliminates some committees and then creates a bunch of standing “subcommittees” for which Dems can hold chairmanships of and even be a majority of.
That’s all bad enough but I found two spots that should show you just how badly all have been sold out by Burrows:
One section of the rules mandates mask wearing in hearings if such is simply “recommended” by Washington bureaucrats! See: CHAPTER D. ORGANIZATION, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES Sec. 7. A new Rule 4, Section 8A, relating to required face
masks during committee meetings, shall read as follows: Rule 4, Sec. 8A.
Another section requires masks on the House floor!
And in a way even worse: Chapter D., Sec. 9, Rule 4, a “new rule” essentially kicks the public out of committee hearings – a longtime dream of Capitol insiders:
“Rule 4, Sec. 12A. PUBLIC ACCESS TO COMMITTEE MEETINGS. The requirement for all meetings of a committee or subcommittee to be open to other members, the press, and the public may be satisfied by video broadcasting the meeting in real time through the Internet. The video broadcast must be accessible from a link on the house’s Internet website.”
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Bad news: The U.S. Supreme Court is letting the feds go ahead with the Orwellian FinCEN beneficial owners reporting. – UPDATE (thanks to listener Barry) – the original Reuters reporting was incorrect and this link above has a rewritten story showing the matter to still be on hold.
Leftist State Bar of Texas drops its case against Attorney General Paxton over 2020 election cases filed by the state. It was always nothing but a political hit.
A big stack of border and illegal immigration news today too.
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