5 years ago HB2571 was killed on the house floor on 3rd reading by my predecessor. It mandated power plants maintain and PREPARE for weather like this. Introduced by Eric Johnson when he was a state rep. MOST REPUBS voted AGAINST this bill. Here are their votes #txlege
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For everyone who is saying this current situation isn’t partisan. You are 100% wrong. Go look at every single situation that had caused this from deregulation on. I am sitting at home between outages and filing what I can before the cutoff so that we can do something.
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This how the GOP Caucus led by @RonforTexas killed @Johnson4Dallas's bill. #txlege
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Curious, what did he do to 'kill' it other than by voting 'Nay'?
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Ask him. He got up and made a speech about it and convinced the other Rs to fall in line. I wasn’t there. This bill was in response to a power outage in 2011 that killed Texans.
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This is not just an ERCOT/PUC problem. This is the result of legislative and executive policy decisions at the highest level. They were GOP decisions.
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Read the bill. It was a study bill (meaning it required no real action) and would have had ZERO effect on this weather event or the preparation. No question changes need to be made but this has zero to do with it. Disgraceful do you to make this claim. #txlege
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✌️ Not to mention is NOT a state agency, so the study bill wouldn't have applied to them. But that distracts from the story 🤫. What #txlege can do: stop distorting the market by propping up unreliables and let the market work; reliables will be built.
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Also the State Climatologist report is here and you can see it predicts a reduction in winter weather through 2036 and says we will be 1.6 degrees warmer than in 2000-2018 (how does he or she know?) climatexas.tamu.edu/files/Climate-. #txlege
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Your argument is flawed, but at least you didn’t pivot to blaming wind turbines. Is this report seriously why you voted against the bill?
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