TEXAS CAPITOL Panel to review art displayed in Senate Senate panel to review artwork selection rules

AUSTIN — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has announced that a special committee will review artworks in the Texas Senate chamber, delivering on a promise he made this year during debate on a bill that would have made it harder to remove Confederate monuments and other historical markers.

Patrick, a Republican who oversees the upper chamber as Senate president, named seven senators — four Republicans and three Democrats — to the committee. They will be in charge of reviewing “the history and p...