Texas House to vote on whether they need to record their votes
How odd. Don’t you just love it when you read something and all you can think of is, wait a minute isn’t it already like that. Obviously it isn’t. I can’t even fathom a reason why votes aren’t recorded in the Texas House of Representatives other than our Representatives don’t want to be accountable for their actions. If there is no record then no one can fault you for your vote.
Dallas Morning News |Bipartisan House group to seek recording of votes
Compromise calls for accounting of members on all bills’ final passage
AUSTIN – A bipartisan group of state representatives will ask the House next week to require that members’ votes on the final passage of all bills be recorded, lawmakers said Friday.The move, if approved by the full House next week, won’t be everything that record-vote advocates wanted – but it would provide more information on lawmakers’ votes than before.
I suppose we learn things every day. I am still totally surprised that they don’t record their votes. I can’t imagine what reasons a lawmaker would give for voting nay to this when it ocurred to me, they don’t have to give reasons because we will never know who voted for and who voted against so who are we going to call to task. The only reason the story gave was this.
But some representatives say that recording every vote is time-consuming and impractical, when lawmakers have 140 days to consider thousands of bills – and that it’s easy enough already to have a vote recorded.
That is just a horribly lame excuse. It isn’t time-consuming or impractical, they just don’t want to be on the record. I love the extra little “and it’s easy enough already to have a vote recorded.” Pathetic, just pathetic.
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[...] The Texas House rule to record their votes passed 81-57. I still don’t understand the reason why anyone would have voted against there being a written record but it doesn’t matter now. Now, on an interesting note, it was decided if they have a voice vote everyone will be presumed to have voted ‘yes’ unless they register a ‘no’ vote. That could make for some fun records if we have lazy legislators that don’t want to go to the trouble. [...]