Friday, April 8,1983/The Battalion/Page 7
Textbook bill wins
tentative approval
staff photo by Dawson Clark
[tired Army Master Sgt. Roy Benavidez, center, Benavidez was the last man to receive a
jutes a Corps outfit with William Izard, left, Congressional Medal of Honor for saving the lives
Inmanding officer of the Third Battalion, and of eight men in Vietnam in 1968. Benavidez
eg Netardus, Corps personnel officer, right. spoke to the Corps Thursday in Rudder Auditorium.
peaker isn’t ‘intimidated’
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Texas
House tentatively approved a
bill that would allow both favor
able and negative testimony
during annual textbook adop
tion hearings, winning praise
from an anti-censorship group
that called the vote a “major vic
tory for the citizens of Texas.”
The Senate-passed textbook
bill would void previous State
Board of Education rules that
allowed only those who opposed
the adoption of certain tex
tbooks to testify at the state tex
tbook committee hearings.
House members, who tenta
tively approved the bill Wednes
day, added minor amendments
that will put the measure in a
House-Senate subcommittee to
iron out the minor differences.
“(The bill is) a major victory
for the citizens of Texas,” said
Michael Hudson, Texas coordi
nator of People for the Amer
ican Way, an anti-censorship
group.
“No longer can the system be
monopolized by those voicing
only criticism of proposed texts.
Now Texas citizens who have
something positive to say will
also be heard,” he said.
The House also tentatively
approved bills Wednesday that
would:
— Allow a county commis
sioners court to create a dispute-
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BfSTIN — House Speaker
Lewis says a proposal to
,en the speaker’s power
lugh a special executive corn
els a warmed over idea that
ins would reject.
" don’t feel intimidated by
ewis said Wednesday of the
osest jf * ian g e advanced by House
stablis® 111 )' Leader Robert Bush,
^nerman.
■ haven’t heard anyone corn
ed thei habout the way the session is
emoffl |g, except for one of two
•estedli jple,” he added.
[Bush proposed breaking
ctedtoi In the “imperial speaker-
oreda« " by establishing a panel to
re the power now held by the
jiker aione. He said the time
ight for “structural reform.”
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elter
threat’
The Fort Worth Democrat,
who is serving his first term as
speaker, has been repeatedly
criticized since his belated discl
osure of his business links with a
beer distributor, two liquor deal
ers and a horse racing lobbyist.
“The speaker’s office is now
under attack,” said Bush.
“There is guilt by association,
and the members are con
cerned.”
Bush said when he has com
pleted a draft of his amend
ments, he plans to submit them
directly to Lewis.
“It could give him something
significant to hang his hat on,”
he said. “He could be a reform
speaker.”
One of Lewis’ first acts as
speaker was to push through
rules changes that permitted
him not only to make committee
assignments, but to appoint and
remove chairmen and members.
The committee proposed by
Bush would be elected by the
House to share those and all
other powers of the speaker.
Lewis said he told Bush he
would be willing to review his
plan, but he called it “an idea
whose time has come, and come,
and come for as many sessions as
I have been a member and even
before.
“It basically smacks of all such
previous proposals which, in ess
ence, would reshape the House
along the same lines as the U.S.
congress,” he said. Lewis said
Texans are satisfied with a sys
tem where committees “are
structured along lines of talent
and ability — rather than on the
basis of partisanship and senior
ity along as is the case in Con
gress.”
Rep. Carlyle Smith, D-Grand
Prairie, one of only two House
members who opposed Lewis
for speaker, said he wished Bush
had been more supportive when
the rules were changed at the
start of the session.
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