Written for The Texas Observer legislative blog "Floor Pass."
Members of the Sunset Advisory Commission were obliged to defend the commission’s role supervising state agencies Thursday morning at a Texas Public Policy Foundation conference in Austin—although the defense may not have been necessary. The panel, “Should Texas Sunset the Sunset Commission?” asked an apparently pressing question on the minds at TPPF, but hardly anybody else’s. None of the four panelists—all members of the Sunset Commission—directly answered the question posed. Although state Rep. Dennis Bonnen (R-Friendswood), the Commission’s chairman, did mention at the very start of the panel that the answer is “rather simplistic.” Read the rest.