A Confederate plaque is displayed near the Rotunda in the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. A powerful Texas Republican is calling for the removal of the Confederate marker in the state Capitol that rejects slavery as an underlying cause of the Civil War. Republican House Speaker Joe Straus said Tuesday, Sept. 19, in a letter to state officials that the plaque is "blatantly inaccurate." He says Texans aren't "well-served by incorrect information about our history."