Texas Speaker Joe Straus urges civility, then spars with Sheila Jackson Lee

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus admonished federal lawmakers Tuesday to tone down the partisan rhetoric in the nation’s capital before being forced to defend Republican decisions women’s health care.

Straus told the bipartisan Texas State Society, a nonpartisan fraternal organization that promotes social events, that partisan bickering in the nation’s capital was creating gridlock. He urged the lawmakers to work for the common good.
 

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