Straus gives GOP members the plums, Democrats, the crumbs with Texas House committee assignments

AUSTIN — Speaker Joe Straus read the election results.

Straus, R-San Antonio, scaled back Democrats’ influence in the House committee assignments he made Wednesday.

Straus removed a veteran Democrat from the helm of the House tax-writing panel and placed fellow Republicans in charge of 25 of the chamber’s 36 committees.

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