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Month January 2009

Special Order in the Texas Senate? More Like No Order

I will have a longer post about the Texas Senate’s adoption of its rules for the 81st Legislature and the controversial decision to exempt “voter identification” legislation from the 2/3rds rule. In watching the proceedings this afternoon and evening, I was struck by the almost-absolute inability of Senators and the Presiding Officer to observe regular legislative procedure. The experience was similar to watching a high school middle school student council meeting. Having closely observed the Senate since the late 1980s, but not so much of late, I was very surprised.

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