Sometimes I walk out here for really no reason at all. The Texas Capitol is just beautiful and belongs to poor children in east El Paso County as much as it belongs to a hedge fund manager who lives in Highland Park. God bless us all.
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The chairs in the Texas Legislature are just lazy now. Testimony on contentious legislation used to often go until sunrise, and now it's arbitrarily cut off at midnight.
If you're gonna inflict misery, you should have to be miserable
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Texas House bill to ban gender affirming care for youth:
- 92 signed up to testify for the bill
- 2,742 signed up against it
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After telling his colleagues that he'd work with them to narrowly target porn in libraries, Rep dodges a question from about whether he'll make any changes #txlege
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On , misrepresents his exchange with Democrats about what books would be banned under his proposal to remove certain books from school libraries #txlege
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passions run high in texas house and senate hearings on drag shows, gender affirming care for youth: bit.ly/3Zgzx2J #txlege
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After 28 years in Congress Sheila Jackson Lee announced she is running for mayor of Houston. Her announcement came at City Cathedral Church. Here’s her announcement:
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Texas House public health com'te chair announces she'll cut off testimony tonight at MIDNIGHT on #HB1686, which wld ban gender-affirming care for minors, to allow members their rest. Senate passed same bill out of com'te last wk: houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas #txlege
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sources: in a closed-door event over the weekend, rep. sheila jackson lee told pastors she is running for mayor : bit.ly/3zt8uXP #txlege
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Saddened to hear about the . Just happened to be cleaning out my office today and came across these originals from the 1960s
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An hour in to former President Donald Trump's speech in Waco, seeing lots of people headed toward the exits.
On site security officials tell me about 18,500 supporters are here, so my guesstimate of 'lots' is probably in low hundreds, for what it's worth. #WacoRally
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I'll get that fixed.
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So who the heck picked Waco to host the rally during the 30th anniversary of the Waco Siege?
Lt. Gov said he did it.
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Far as I can tell, the only Texas statewide elected Republican confirmed to speak at the Trump rally today is Agriculture Commissioner #txlege
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BREAKING: Authorities in Texas say that two migrants were found dead and at least 10 were hospitalized after authorities received a call that they were “suffocating” in a train car traveling near the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Awful story by on the states (non) prosecution of human trafficking after waves of resignations
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Sampling the brand new Casa 1910 with one of the cigar makers, Serge. We missed you,
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"If you like your public school you can keep your public school" under a voucher plan that diverts $ from public education.
No different from Obama saying "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor," which was the "lie of the year" npr.org/sections/thetw
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Texas Senate Education Committee considering UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICE: "if you like your public school you can keep your public school"
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in honor of michele kronberg, quorum report teams with leukemia & lymphoma society to fight blood cancer : bit.ly/3z1eB5h #txlege
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It is exceedingly clear that no Texas legislator was ever forced by their employer to learn the definition of obscenity #TxLege
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Doing show prep.
What is your favorite line or moment from Lonesome Dove?
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"Keep an ear out on Friday for a new episode of the Texas Take with Scott Braddock and me as we review the big political headlines of the week. Hint: Earl Campbell, Lonesome Dove and Friday Night Lights are sure to show up" -
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Your Texas Senate:
"Lick us where we pee."
"Lick us where we poo."
"Sir, you've made your point."
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Broadcast Day 2 at the Texas Capitol. Here are the guests scheduled to join the show: 4:15pm- 4:35pm- 5:05pm- 5:15pm- 5:35pm- 6:05pm- #txlege Listen anywhere
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On a vote of 23 to 3, House Appropriations advances HB1, their version of the Texas budget, to the full Texas House #txlege
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Appealing a ruling of the Chair in the Texas Senate is pretty rare.
If memory serves: The last time there was an appeal of a ruling of the Lt. Gov, it was when then-Lt. Gov. Dewhurst ruled Wendy Davis needed to abandon her abortion filibuster a decade ago in 2013 #TxLege
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The Senate votes 29 to 2 to side with that he was correct to rule a gun policy amendment as nongermane on a bill aimed at cracking down on the use of bots to purchase goods online #TxLege
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Appealing the ruling of the chair is a direct challenge to the power of the Texas Senate's presiding officer. Doubtful even many Democrats would vote to overrule @DanPatrick's decision #TxLege twitter.com/scottbraddock/…
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Appealing the ruling of the chair is a direct challenge to the power of the Texas Senate's presiding officer. Doubtful even many Democrats would vote to overrule 's decision #TxLege
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Watch the Texas Senate now. Sen @RolandForTexas fighting a ruling from @DanPatrick against an amendment dealing with online gun sales. Live video: tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph #TxLege
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Watch the Texas Senate now. Sen fighting a ruling from against an amendment dealing with online gun sales. Live video: tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph #TxLege
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Representatives and have made a big show of opposing a resolution celebrating Ramadan at the Texas Capitol. But for the record, *neither* of them objected to the adoption of the resolution. In fact, no one did.
Here's the video #txlege
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And we have the first Texas House calendar of the session, set for Tuesday #txlege
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Sounds like roughly 95 witnesses to go on this school voucher bill #txlege
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Way longer than that
If everyone testifying stuck to their three minutes, which they won't, it would be around twenty hours #TXLege
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