Under wraps, the Texas House Committee on General Investigating met Wednesday for an undisclosed purpose a week after state Attorney General made an unfounded claim that the panel is again considering his ouster. Having previously denied Paxton's concern, Rep. , R-Junction, the committee's chairman, declined to comment Wednesday on the nature of the group's meeting, only indicating that no official actions or decisions were made during the private forum.
"The chair notes for the record that no decisions were made or voted upon in the executive session," Murr said, noting that the committee's reason for assembling had "been completed." Each member of the five-person panel, with Rep. Oscar Longoria, D-Mission, absent, declined to address any aspect of the committee's work Wednesday.
Last week, ahead of the committee's previously scheduled hearing, Paxton sounded an alarm that he is concerned the panel, which was ultimately responsible for his brief suspension from office last year, is again looking into impeaching him. “Their bitter obsession with taking me down knows no bounds, and they will stop at nothing to remove me from office,” Paxton said in a statement last week. Immediately afterward, Murr, , said there was no truth to Paxton's "fantasy" claim.
"Our committee’s agenda was never related to the attorney general; the House General Investigating Committee will be convening on a completely unrelated matter," Murr said in a statement to The Texas Tribune at the time. .
