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New House speaker lays out challenges The 87th session of the Texas Legislature opened Tuesday with COVID-19 encompassing every aspect of what the lawms do, according to new House Speaker Dade Phelan. “COVID, obviously, it will be ablanket over the entire session,” Phelan told his hometownTV station, KFDM Channel 6, in Beaumont. “We will deal with it in every aspect of policy. It will be a huge…