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Welcome to the first iteration of our bi-monthly interim newsletter, intended to provide context to the ever-changing world of Texas policy & politics.
With the 89th Legislative Session just over 4 months away, legislative committees are wrapping up their interim hearings and preparing their interim reports whilst returning lawmakers are drafting legislation and their own legislative priorities.
We have heard a lot about committee chairmanships over the last few legislative sessions and the issue was one of many brought to the forefront in recent primary elections. We decided to look into the partisan committee chairmanships and majorities of each committee going all the way back to the early 1990s. Make sure to check it out in our most recent data/research project below!
For Liberty, For Texas,
Jeramy D. Kitchen
President, Texas Policy Research
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Committee Chairmanships & Partisan Majorities Over Time
(1991 – 2023)
In recent years, a contentious issue has stirred within Texas politics: the allocation of committee chairmanships in the Texas Legislature. Republican-oriented activists and political observers have dubbed this debate “No Democrat Chairs,” a movement that calls for restricting committee leadership positions exclusively to the majority party, which in the case of the Texas Legislature has been the Republican Party for over two decades…
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