Posted on May 26th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
MySA.com: Politics
AUSTIN — The Texas House fell into chaos Friday night as its parliamentarians resigned and Speaker Tom Craddick brought the chamber to a standstill for 2 ½ hours, saying he does not have to recognize a member for a motion to throw him out of office.
The House adjourned at about 1:30 a.m. without [...]
Filed under: Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislators, Texas Legislature, Tom Craddick | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 13th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
MySA.com: Politics
AUSTIN — After hearing personal stories from African American and Hispanic members about being harassed by police, the Texas House on Thursday killed a bill that would have expanded officers’ authority to demand personal information from an individual.The reversal on a bill that had been tentatively passed a day earlier showed the force of [...]
Filed under: Diana White Delisi, HB 2685, HB 855, Texas Bills, Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislators, Texas Legislature, Warren Chisum | No Comments »
Posted on January 24th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
Dallas Morning News | Liquor wholesalers ply legislators with cash
AUSTIN – Liquor wholesalers dumped nearly $1.7 million on Texas lawmakers in the weeks leading up to the 2007 Legislature while pushing for changes that would allow them to sell booze directly to restaurants and bars.
The law now allows only package liquor stores – not wholesalers [...]
Filed under: Liquor, Texas Ethics Commission, Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislators, Texas Legislature, austin, campaign contributions, texas | No Comments »
Posted on January 19th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
HB 557
Author:
Smith, Wayne
Last Action:
01/11/2007 H Filed
Caption:
Relating to the failure of a parent to attend a public school parent-teacher conference; providing a criminal penalty.
Wow, this is taking things a step or two too far. Criminal penalties if a parent doesn’t attend a parent-teacher conference? How crazy is that? Here is the bill itself, have [...]
Filed under: HB 557, Parent-Teacher conference, Texas House of Representatives, Wayne Smith, education, texas, texas politics | No Comments »
Posted on January 13th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
Some quick updates on some of our past posts…
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 [...]
Filed under: Helotes, Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislators, politics, record-vote, texas, texas politics | No Comments »
Posted on January 6th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
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 [...]
Filed under: Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislators, Texas Legislature, record-vote | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 30th, 2006 by Dig ad veritas
New poll detects a change in the political climate in the Capitol
Then came The Poll.
Texas Democrats have pulled even with Republicans, and the state is now about half red, half blue. At least, that’s according to 1,053 Texans surveyed by an independent Democratic pollster.
The poll’s news announcement focused on one specific response: By 46 percent [...]
Filed under: Polls, Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislators, Texas Legislature, Tom Craddick, democrat, republican, texas, texas politics | No Comments »
Posted on December 29th, 2006 by Dig ad veritas
I haven’t found anything local particularly interesting to write about today. Lots of stories in the news about the Texas speaker race. I would like to see Craddick out because he is nothing more than a schoolyard bully but no matter what happens it will still be a Republican in control so I can’t get [...]
Filed under: Brownsville, Bully, Eddie Lucio, Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislators, Texas Legislature, Tom Craddick | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 21st, 2006 by TechDigger
I’ve been trying to find out how my very Republican precinct voted in the District 23 run-off election between Bonilla and Rodriguez and came across an analysis of why Bonilla lost at the Right of Texas blog. Notice how it’s never how Rodriguez won but Bonilla lost? There may be some truth to the statement, [...]
Filed under: Bonilla, Ciro Rodriguez, Congressional District 23, District 23, Henry Bonilla, Runoff Election - December 12, Texas District 23, Texas House of Representatives, republican, runoff | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by Dig ad veritas
TLO - Report
HB 21
Author:
Corte, Frank
Last Action:
11/13/2006 H Filed
Caption:
Relating to informed consent to an abortion.
HB 22
Author:
Corte, Frank
Last Action:
11/13/2006 H Filed
Caption:
Relating to the regulation of certain physician’s offices where abortions are performed.
HB 23
Author:
Corte, Frank
Last Action:
11/13/2006 H Filed
Caption:
Relating to disclosing information to persons obtaining emergency contraception.
Three bills filed by [...]
Filed under: Frank Corte, Texas House of Representatives, Uncategorized, abortion, breast cancer risk, death penalty, emergency contraceptives, hb 21, hb 22, hb 23, texas, texas politics | No Comments »
