Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced today on X that he is appointing a casino lobbyist as his new chief of staff.

Representatives Schatzline, Harrison, Toth, and Tinderholt were censured by the Texas House Republican Caucus on June 10 for campaigning for Conservative Republicans. The censure has had the opposite effect of what was intended.

Last week, border security measures were heard in the House State Affairs Committee and there they sit still, awaiting a vote and movement to the full House…