Texas House Republicans flex their might after Democrats threaten legislative priorities

Texas House Republicans flex their might after Democrats threaten legislative priorities

In the Texas House of Representatives, Democrats have maneuvered to frustrate elements of the Republican agenda. Republicans pushed back by blocking a series of Democratic measures that usually attract little opposition. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune By Kate McGee and Renzo Downey, The Texas Tribune Partisan rancor in the Texas House of Representatives threatened to boil over on Friday when a group of hardline Republicans killed a s…

Texas House Republicans flex their might after Democrats threaten leg…

After Republicans and Democrats fight over the budget and constitutional amendments, GOP members stake out a new battlefield.

House Conservatives Kill Democratic Calendar Items- Reform Austin

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A band of the Texas House’s most conservative lawmakers on Friday united to kill the vast majority of bills on the chamber’s Local and Consent Calendar, according to the Quorum Report. The calendar includes non-emergency bills and resolutions that are, per the House website, “local or noncontroversial,” as decided by the calendar’s namesake House committee, in the interest of speeding up …