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Senate Unanimously Passes Fiscally Responsible Budget
Coming in under available revenues, the Texas Senate passed a fiscally responsible state budget that meets needs. And in what can only be described as a repudiation to the bizarre claims of the Texas House leadership, the budget was passed unanimously. Senate Finance...
Pastors Present the Toilet Seat Awards
The Texas Privacy Act, Senate Bill 6, received support from every Republican and one Democrat in the Texas Senate, yet despite it being a priority item of the Lt. Gov., it has stalled in the House. To urge movement on the legislation, the Houston Five – a group of...
Bad Music
Despite the existence of several excellent museums dedicated to Texas music, some liberal state lawmakers want to make another one funded by taxpayers on the grounds of the Capitol. Legislation by State Rep. Charlie Geren (R-Fort Worth) and State Sen. Kirk Watson...
Poe’s Swamp Gas?
Unwilling to take heat from the GOP leadership after the implosion of RyanCare, a Houston Republican has resigned from the conservative Freedom Caucus. Widely recognized as being the home of the U.S. House of Representatives’ most conservative lawmakers, the Freedom...
Pro-Collin College Bond PAC Omits Bond’s $600 Million Price
Something big is missing from a pro-bond political action group’s advertising in favor of a massive May debt proposition: the cost to taxpayers. “VOTE ‘YES’ COLLIN COLLEGE BOND,” blares a pushcard paid for by Citizens For Collin College, a specific-purpose political...
Conservatives Oppose Gutting of Sanctuary Cities Reform
A priority for Gov. Greg Abbott and the Republican Party of Texas, lawmakers quickly got to work on legislation to ban sanctuary cities and compel law enforcement officials to cooperate with federal authorities. As with all of Abbott’s other “emergency items,” the...
Abbott Calls for Statewide Pre-Emption
On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott doubled down on earlier statements calling for a “broad-based law” pre-empting local regulations. Though "local control" hasn’t received as much attention this session as observers expected, the battle is quickly bubbling to the surface as...
Harris County Republicans Want Pension Reform
At their first quarterly meeting of the year, the only that will have an impact this legislative session, Harris County Republican Party’s executive committee pushed support for specific pension reforms for the City of Houston Though Houston’s pensions have been a...
Texas Legislature Tries Again to End Unfair “Rolling Polling”
The Texas Legislature is making another pass at ending an unfair and confusing early voting practice that is undermining the integrity of elections across the state. The practice known as “rolling polling” – by which governmental entities, such as school districts,...