
Speaker Burrows Remodels Texas House with All-Republican Chairs
The new leader of the lower chamber finally announced committee assignments, formalizing a new order in the lower chamber.
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Joelle DiPaolo is the Observer’s legislative intern covering the 2025 session. She is currently a senior journalism major at the University of Texas at Austin, where she spent three years as an editor and reporter at the Daily Texan. She previously interned for the Austin Chronicle and Texas Monthly.
The new leader of the lower chamber finally announced committee assignments, formalizing a new order in the lower chamber.
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