Las Vegas Sands has hired 51 lobbyists to push for the expansion of gambling in Texas.
The Beaumont Republican saw a flood of campaign cash in the weeks before he was elected speaker on Tuesday.
Phelan’s election to the gavel was one of the House’s first order of business Tuesday, when the Legislature kicked off the 2021 legislative session.
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