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 [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
MySA.com: House gives nod to helping needy with their power tab
The Texas House on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would restore funding to assist low-income Texans with their electric bills.
Public interest groups hailed the tentative passage of House Bill 551, by Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston. The bill would restore the [...]
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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 April 11th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
MySA.com: Toll road moratorium gets overwhelming support in the House
But lawmakers won’t increase the gas tax, Krusee said later: “The Legislature doesn’t want to raise taxes.”The moratorium also is a reaction to a 156-page transportation bill that rushed through the Legislature four years ago in less than 20 days. Lawmakers didn’t fully understand the legislation [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
MySA.com: Gas tax called toll alternative
Raise the gas tax slowly, year by year, and Texas wouldn’t need most of the glut of toll-road projects now on the books, state Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, said Monday in Austin.The state surely would be able to resist the allure of cash from corporations looking to finance and operate [...]
Filed under: John Carona, Texas Bills, Texas Legislators, Texas Legislature, Toll Roads, gas tax, texas | 1 Comment »
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 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 [...]
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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 16th, 2006 by Dig ad veritas
Star-Telegram | 12/16/2006 | Lawmakers step into feud over football
Two South Texas lawmakers are seeking to broker a peace treaty between cable television providers and the NFL Network so their constituents won’t miss any important football games, especially ones involving the Dallas Cowboys.
State Sen. Eddie Lucio of Brownsville and state Rep. Jose Menendez of San [...]
Filed under: Dallas Cowboys, Eddie Lucio, HCR 21, Jose Menendez, NFL Network, SCR 2, Texas House of Representatives, Texas Legislators, Texas Legislature, football, texas, texas politics | No Comments »
