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Rep. James White files ‘Texas Self-Sufficiency’ bill to analyze reliance on...
comments ()AUSTIN — Rep. James White, R-Hillister, filed a bill Friday that would create a committee to review whether Texas could keep operating without receiving federal dollars. Small-government...
View ArticleComptroller: Difficult to forecast available budget for next two years
comments ()AUSTIN — Texas Comptroller Susan Combs told the Senate Finance committee it is hard to forecast the budget 32 months in advance. Combs pointed out that the state is one of only four states...
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New coalition will try to get state to restore family planning funding
AUSTIN — A new bipartisan group will try to sway the state and ensure the restoration of family planning funding to the state preventive health care program. The Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition,...
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Darby: Oil and gas boys are willin’ to keep payin’ some fees so regulators...
Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo (AP 2007 photo) Oil and gas drilling is so hot in Texas, and a permitting delay of even one day so costly, that energy chieftains have … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleNorth Texas lawmakers criticize President Obama’s budget, tardiness
WASHINGTON — Texas Republicans are criticizing the 2014 budget President Barack Obama sent today to Congress, saying the plan comes too late and the tax hikes are too steep. The proposed $3.8-trillion...
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House angers Williams by postponing water vote by a day
State Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie Update at 9:17 p.m.: The House voted 148-1 to suspend the Tuesday midnight deadline for taking up Senate bills and agreed to take up the water-fund constitutional...
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Rep. John Carter picked for shutdown conference committee that may never meet
Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, (far right at table) and other House Republicans, including Rep. Paul Ryan (foreground) speak to the media earlier today (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)visit site to read...
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Cornyn skeptical on budget compromise: “Wondering where the beef is”
Sen. John Cornyn talks to members of the media while attending NCAA college football practice at Baylor. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte, File)visit site to read more]
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Straus orders tighter scrutiny of a dozen agencies, programs
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, shown during his election as speaker at the start of last year's session. (Louis DeLuca/Staff photographer) Update at 9:30 p.m.: … [visit site to read more]
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Cruz, citing Obamacare revenue, votes against Senate GOP budget, heads to New...
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Budget writers remove provision that threatened bullet train proposal
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Collin County budgets for special prosecutors in AG Ken Paxton case without...
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