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AUSTIN — Hundreds of staunchly conservative Republican activists descended on the House gallery and members’ offices Thursday to deplore the chamber’s practice of letting Democrats run committees. They arrived, though, a day late. On Wednesday, adopting its rules for the session, the GOP-controlled House sidestepped a push by diehard conservatives to insert a provision that would prohibit Democrats from holding …

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