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Chair leaves Senate Committee just before scheduled DRP hearing

Who knows what this will mean in practice for the Driver Responsibility program, which presumably is still scheduled to be discussed before the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee on August 3, or for that matter the array of other issues facing the committee, but Sen. John Carona, a critic of the program, was replaced as chair by Sen. Tommy Williams, a Republican out of the Woodlands. Austin Sen. Kirk Watson is now vice chair. Carona left the committee entirely and will now chair Business and Finance. Perhaps more significantly as it regards criminal justice policy reform, Carona also left the Senate Criminal Justice Committee and was replaced by conservative ex-judge Sen. Joan Huffman, who is now vice-chair.The San Antonio Express News editorialized that Carona was benched for telling the truth about state roads, however there are reports that he requested the change himself because "transportation funding is not something legislative leadership is serious about for next year's session, so he sought a committee chairmanship that will make a difference...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 16, 2010 (boomark / email).