House debate on HB1 continues to plod along, with most amendments either being defeated by substantial margins or withdrawn. For variety, sometimes an amendment will be temporarily withdrawn, brought back up a little later and then defeated by a substantial margin. One of the more interesting amendments was offered by Rep. Pete Gallego, DAlpine, who […]
If he was watching the House debate on HB1 a little while ago, state Education Commissioner Robert Scott may have felt a little scare. Republican Rep. Burt Solomons proposed an amendment to deeply cut into the Texas Education Agency’s budget and cut Scott’s salary in about half. Solomons would have put the savings – more […]
It is now about 6:05 p.m. and the Texas House is getting ready to debate Article III, the education article, of House Bill 1. During more than eight hours of debate on Article I, the executive branch, and Article II, health and human services, no significant amendments were adopted, which is bad news for children […]
There are budgets, and there are political statements. House Bill 1, the slashandburn appropriations bill now being debated on the House floor, is more the latter than the former. It is a political statement by rightwing ideologues who want to shrink state government and don’t care about the consequences – higher unemployment, more homeless on […]
