Dade Phelan

Dade Phelan
Dade Phelan
Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 12, 2021
Preceded by	Dennis Bonnen
Member of the Texas House of Representatives; from the 21st district
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 13, 2015
Preceded by	Allan Ritter
Personal details
Born	September 18, 1975 (age 45); Beaumont, Texas, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Kim
Children	4
Residence	Beaumont, Texas
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Real estate developer

Matthew McDade Phelan (born September 18, 1975) is an American real estate developer and politician who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 21, which encompasses half of Jefferson County and all of neighboring Orange County in the far southeastern corner of the state. He has served as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives since January 2021.

Background[]

Phelan is a 1994 graduate of Monsignor Kelly Catholic High School in Beaumont and a 1998 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He is a senior partner and broker at his family-owned Phelan Investments, a real estate development company with assets in Texas and Arkansas.^[1]

He was a staff member for former District 4 State Senator Tommy Williams, U.S. Representative Dick Armey of Texas's 26th congressional district and District 21 State Representative Mark Stiles. Governor Rick Perry twice named him to the Lower Neches Valley Authority; he was the board president in 2013.^[1]

State legislator[]

Phelan succeeded former Democrat Allan Ritter, who was first elected in 1998 and switched to Republican affiliation late in his tenure in November 2010. Ritter announced in October 2013 that he would not run for a ninth two-year term. The district includes all of Orange County and the cities of Groves, Port Neches, and Nederland, and part of Beaumont, all in Jefferson County.

Phelan currently serves as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. He has served previously as Chair of the House Committee on State Affairs, on the Natural Resources Committee as Vice-Chair, the Calendars Committee, the Appropriations Committee, Elections Committee as well as the Select Committee on Ports, Innovation and Infrastructure. He is also a founding member of the House Criminal Justice Reform Caucus.^[2]

Phelan was named a “Champion of Infrastructure” by the lobbying group The American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas^[3] and was twice a finalist for “Newsmaker of the Year” by the Press Club of Southeast Texas.^[4]

Texas Monthly recognized Phelan as one of the best legislators of 2019.^[5]

On December 2, 2020, Phelan was traveling in a private plane when it crashed on landing during a rainstorm at Angelina County Airport near Lufkin, Texas. There were no serious injuries.^[6]

Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives[]

On January 12, 2021, Phelan was elected the 76th Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. He is the first Speaker of the House in state history from Southeast Texas.

Voting Rights[]

On August 12th, 2021, Pehlan signed arrest warrants for the 52 Democrat lawmakers who broke quorum to stop the passing of legislation overwhelmingly accused as an attempt to restrict voting access to voters of color by Voting and Civil Rights groups.^[7] During the House debate on the bill, Phelan banned Texas representatives from using the word "racism".^[8]

Personal life[]

He is a former board secretary to Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas and a former board member of the St. Anne Roman Catholic Church, the historic Jefferson Theatre, Southeast Texas CASA and the Golden Triangle Conservation Association. In 2019 he was installed as a Director to the Texas Lyceum.^[1]

Phelan and his wife, Kim, live in Jefferson County, Texas with their four young boys.^[1] He is the great-grandson of John Henry Phelan, a Beaumont real estate developer, oil executive and philanthropist.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "About Dade Phelan". texansfordade.com. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
^ McCullough, Jolie (18 July 2019). "After defeats in 2019, a group of Texas lawmakers is teaming up to push criminal justice reform". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
^ "CHAMPIONS OF INFRASTRUCTURE - 86TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION". ACEC Texas. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
^ "Newsmaker of the Year finalists named". Port Arthur News. 12 March 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
^ Sanchez, Carlos; Ratcliffe, R.G.; Hooks, Christopher (18 June 2019). "2019: The Best and Worst Legislators". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
^ "Incoming Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan On Plane That Skidded Off Airport Runway". CBS DFW. 3 December 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
^
Multiple sources:
- Eva Ruth Moravec; Elise Viebeck (12 August 2021). "Texas House speaker signs arrest warrants for Democrats who broke quorum over voting restrictions". Washington Post. Washington Post.
- Ura, Alexa (2021-05-07). "Texas GOP's voting restrictions bill could be rewritten behind closed doors after final House passage". The Texas Tribune. But both the original SB 7 and the original provisions of HB 6 were opposed by civil rights groups who raised the prospect that the legislation violates federal safeguards for voters of color. Republicans’ efforts to further restrict voting in the state come as their presidential margins of victory continue to thin and Democrats drive up their votes in diverse urban centers and growing suburban communities.
- Ura, Alexa (2021-03-22). "Texas Republicans begin pursuing new voting restrictions as they work to protect their hold on power". The Texas Tribune. Senate Bill 7 is part of a broader package of proposals to constrain local initiatives widening voter access in urban areas, made up largely by people of color, that favor Democrats.
- "New GOP-led voting restrictions move forward in Texas". CBS News/AP. 1 April 2021. The bill is one of two major voting packages in Texas that mirrors a nationwide campaign by Republicans after former President Donald Trump made false claims about election fraud. Voting rights groups say the measures would disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minority voters.
- Wines, Michael (2021-04-01). "Texas lawmakers advance a bill that would make voting more difficult, drawing comparisons to Georgia". The New York Times. Critics of the Senate bill said most of its provisions were less about making voting secure than about making it harder, particularly for urban voters and minority voters, two groups that tend to vote for Democrats.
- Barragán, James (2021-04-01). "In overnight vote, Texas Senate passes bill that would make it harder to vote". Dallas Morning News. [President of the Texas Civil Rights Project] said many of the bill’s provisions would disproportionately affect voters of color. The extended voting hours in Harris County, for example, were mostly used by voters of color. Fifty-six percent of voters who cast ballots in late night hours were Black, Hispanic or Asian, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project.
- Coronado, Acacia (2021-05-30). "EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder". Associated Press. Advocates say the changes would disproportionately affect minorities and people with disabilities.
- Gardner, Amy (2021-05-30). "How the new Texas voting bill would create hurdles for voters of color". Washington Post. While Senate Bill 7 would have wide-ranging effects on voters across the state, it includes specific language that critics say would disproportionately affect people of color — particularly those who live in under-resourced and urban communities.
- Jasper Scherer; Zach Despart (1 May 2021). "GOP bills target Harris County's efforts to expand voting. Here's how that played out in the 2020 election". Houston Chronicle. Voting rights experts say the bills — which include measures that would apply only to the state’s most populous counties, all of which are predominantly nonwhite — would discriminate against voters of color.
- Nick Corasaniti (24 April 2021). "Republicans Target Voter Access in Texas Cities, but Not Rural Areas". New York Times. The Republican focus on diverse urban areas, voting activists say, evokes the state’s history of racially discriminatory voting laws — including poll taxes and “white primary” laws during the Jim Crow era — that essentially excluded Black voters from the electoral process. Most of Harris County’s early voters were white, according to a study by the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit group. But the majority of those who used drive-through or 24-hour voting — the early voting methods the Republican bills would prohibit — were people of color, the group found.
- Paul J. Weber (15 April 2021). "Houston's expanded voting becomes target of GOP restrictions". The effort is one of the clearest examples of how the GOP’s nationwide campaign to tighten voting laws can target Democrats, even as they insist the measures are not partisan. With Americans increasingly sorted into liberal urban areas and conservative rural ones, geography can be an effective proxy for partisanship. Proposals tailored to cities or that take population into account are bound to have a greater impact on Democratic voters.; The county exemplifies the GOP's slipping grip on fast-changing Texas. In 2004, former President George W. Bush, who is from Texas, easily won Harris County and Republicans ran every major countywide office. But recent years have been routs for Democrats, whose wins now extend down the ballot to local judicial races.
^ Scully, Rachel (27 August 2021). "Texas state House Speaker bans the word 'racism' amid voting bill debate". The Hill. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

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Preceded by	Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 21st district 2015–present	Incumbent
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Preceded by Dennis Bonnen	Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives 2021–present	Incumbent

[about-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "About Dade Phelan". texansfordade.com. Retrieved December 5, 2014.

[2] McCullough, Jolie (18 July 2019). "After defeats in 2019, a group of Texas lawmakers is teaming up to push criminal justice reform". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 4 December 2020.

[3] "CHAMPIONS OF INFRASTRUCTURE - 86TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION". ACEC Texas. Retrieved 4 December 2020.

[4] "Newsmaker of the Year finalists named". Port Arthur News. 12 March 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.

[5] Sanchez, Carlos; Ratcliffe, R.G.; Hooks, Christopher (18 June 2019). "2019: The Best and Worst Legislators". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 4 December 2020.

[6] "Incoming Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan On Plane That Skidded Off Airport Runway". CBS DFW. 3 December 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.

[7] Multiple sources:
Eva Ruth Moravec; Elise Viebeck (12 August 2021). "Texas House speaker signs arrest warrants for Democrats who broke quorum over voting restrictions". Washington Post. Washington Post.

Ura, Alexa (2021-05-07). "Texas GOP's voting restrictions bill could be rewritten behind closed doors after final House passage". The Texas Tribune. But both the original SB 7 and the original provisions of HB 6 were opposed by civil rights groups who raised the prospect that the legislation violates federal safeguards for voters of color. Republicans’ efforts to further restrict voting in the state come as their presidential margins of victory continue to thin and Democrats drive up their votes in diverse urban centers and growing suburban communities.

Ura, Alexa (2021-03-22). "Texas Republicans begin pursuing new voting restrictions as they work to protect their hold on power". The Texas Tribune. Senate Bill 7 is part of a broader package of proposals to constrain local initiatives widening voter access in urban areas, made up largely by people of color, that favor Democrats.

"New GOP-led voting restrictions move forward in Texas". CBS News/AP. 1 April 2021. The bill is one of two major voting packages in Texas that mirrors a nationwide campaign by Republicans after former President Donald Trump made false claims about election fraud. Voting rights groups say the measures would disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minority voters.

Wines, Michael (2021-04-01). "Texas lawmakers advance a bill that would make voting more difficult, drawing comparisons to Georgia". The New York Times. Critics of the Senate bill said most of its provisions were less about making voting secure than about making it harder, particularly for urban voters and minority voters, two groups that tend to vote for Democrats.

Barragán, James (2021-04-01). "In overnight vote, Texas Senate passes bill that would make it harder to vote". Dallas Morning News. [President of the Texas Civil Rights Project] said many of the bill’s provisions would disproportionately affect voters of color. The extended voting hours in Harris County, for example, were mostly used by voters of color. Fifty-six percent of voters who cast ballots in late night hours were Black, Hispanic or Asian, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project.

Coronado, Acacia (2021-05-30). "EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder". Associated Press. Advocates say the changes would disproportionately affect minorities and people with disabilities.

Gardner, Amy (2021-05-30). "How the new Texas voting bill would create hurdles for voters of color". Washington Post. While Senate Bill 7 would have wide-ranging effects on voters across the state, it includes specific language that critics say would disproportionately affect people of color — particularly those who live in under-resourced and urban communities.

Jasper Scherer; Zach Despart (1 May 2021). "GOP bills target Harris County's efforts to expand voting. Here's how that played out in the 2020 election". Houston Chronicle. Voting rights experts say the bills — which include measures that would apply only to the state’s most populous counties, all of which are predominantly nonwhite — would discriminate against voters of color.

Nick Corasaniti (24 April 2021). "Republicans Target Voter Access in Texas Cities, but Not Rural Areas". New York Times. The Republican focus on diverse urban areas, voting activists say, evokes the state’s history of racially discriminatory voting laws — including poll taxes and “white primary” laws during the Jim Crow era — that essentially excluded Black voters from the electoral process. Most of Harris County’s early voters were white, according to a study by the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit group. But the majority of those who used drive-through or 24-hour voting — the early voting methods the Republican bills would prohibit — were people of color, the group found.

Paul J. Weber (15 April 2021). "Houston's expanded voting becomes target of GOP restrictions". The effort is one of the clearest examples of how the GOP’s nationwide campaign to tighten voting laws can target Democrats, even as they insist the measures are not partisan. With Americans increasingly sorted into liberal urban areas and conservative rural ones, geography can be an effective proxy for partisanship. Proposals tailored to cities or that take population into account are bound to have a greater impact on Democratic voters.; The county exemplifies the GOP's slipping grip on fast-changing Texas. In 2004, former President George W. Bush, who is from Texas, easily won Harris County and Republicans ran every major countywide office. But recent years have been routs for Democrats, whose wins now extend down the ballot to local judicial races.

[8] Eva Ruth Moravec; Elise Viebeck (12 August 2021). "Texas House speaker signs arrest warrants for Democrats who broke quorum over voting restrictions". Washington Post. Washington Post.

[9] Ura, Alexa (2021-05-07). "Texas GOP's voting restrictions bill could be rewritten behind closed doors after final House passage". The Texas Tribune. But both the original SB 7 and the original provisions of HB 6 were opposed by civil rights groups who raised the prospect that the legislation violates federal safeguards for voters of color. Republicans’ efforts to further restrict voting in the state come as their presidential margins of victory continue to thin and Democrats drive up their votes in diverse urban centers and growing suburban communities.

[10] Ura, Alexa (2021-03-22). "Texas Republicans begin pursuing new voting restrictions as they work to protect their hold on power". The Texas Tribune. Senate Bill 7 is part of a broader package of proposals to constrain local initiatives widening voter access in urban areas, made up largely by people of color, that favor Democrats.

[11] "New GOP-led voting restrictions move forward in Texas". CBS News/AP. 1 April 2021. The bill is one of two major voting packages in Texas that mirrors a nationwide campaign by Republicans after former President Donald Trump made false claims about election fraud. Voting rights groups say the measures would disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minority voters.

[12] Wines, Michael (2021-04-01). "Texas lawmakers advance a bill that would make voting more difficult, drawing comparisons to Georgia". The New York Times. Critics of the Senate bill said most of its provisions were less about making voting secure than about making it harder, particularly for urban voters and minority voters, two groups that tend to vote for Democrats.

[13] Barragán, James (2021-04-01). "In overnight vote, Texas Senate passes bill that would make it harder to vote". Dallas Morning News. [President of the Texas Civil Rights Project] said many of the bill’s provisions would disproportionately affect voters of color. The extended voting hours in Harris County, for example, were mostly used by voters of color. Fifty-six percent of voters who cast ballots in late night hours were Black, Hispanic or Asian, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project.

[14] Coronado, Acacia (2021-05-30). "EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder". Associated Press. Advocates say the changes would disproportionately affect minorities and people with disabilities.

[15] Gardner, Amy (2021-05-30). "How the new Texas voting bill would create hurdles for voters of color". Washington Post. While Senate Bill 7 would have wide-ranging effects on voters across the state, it includes specific language that critics say would disproportionately affect people of color — particularly those who live in under-resourced and urban communities.

[16] Jasper Scherer; Zach Despart (1 May 2021). "GOP bills target Harris County's efforts to expand voting. Here's how that played out in the 2020 election". Houston Chronicle. Voting rights experts say the bills — which include measures that would apply only to the state’s most populous counties, all of which are predominantly nonwhite — would discriminate against voters of color.

[17] Nick Corasaniti (24 April 2021). "Republicans Target Voter Access in Texas Cities, but Not Rural Areas". New York Times. The Republican focus on diverse urban areas, voting activists say, evokes the state’s history of racially discriminatory voting laws — including poll taxes and “white primary” laws during the Jim Crow era — that essentially excluded Black voters from the electoral process. Most of Harris County’s early voters were white, according to a study by the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit group. But the majority of those who used drive-through or 24-hour voting — the early voting methods the Republican bills would prohibit — were people of color, the group found.

[18] Paul J. Weber (15 April 2021). "Houston's expanded voting becomes target of GOP restrictions". The effort is one of the clearest examples of how the GOP’s nationwide campaign to tighten voting laws can target Democrats, even as they insist the measures are not partisan. With Americans increasingly sorted into liberal urban areas and conservative rural ones, geography can be an effective proxy for partisanship. Proposals tailored to cities or that take population into account are bound to have a greater impact on Democratic voters.; The county exemplifies the GOP's slipping grip on fast-changing Texas. In 2004, former President George W. Bush, who is from Texas, easily won Harris County and Republicans ran every major countywide office. But recent years have been routs for Democrats, whose wins now extend down the ballot to local judicial races.

[8] Scully, Rachel (27 August 2021). "Texas state House Speaker bans the word 'racism' amid voting bill debate". The Hill. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

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Dade Phelan


Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office January 12, 2021
Preceded by	Dennis Bonnen
Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 21st district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 13, 2015
Preceded by	Allan Ritter

Personal details
Born	(1975-09-18) September 18, 1975 (age 45) Beaumont, Texas, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Kim
Children	4
Residence	Beaumont, Texas
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Real estate developer