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Dallas Morning News political writers and editors blog about the 2007 Texas Legislature
- A Tall Texan
- Steven Colbert and Michelle Obama: This'll be fun!
- Stephen Leavin'
- Craddick and New York
- Moving the Party over to Trailblazers
- YO LA TENGO, TONY?
- Terry Keel in the Hizzy
- Rick Talks Turkey
- Craddick responds to Keffer/Cook's request
- Keffer and Craddick and Abbott, oh my
- Texas Monthly's 10 Best and Worst
- Sine Die: Bat outta Hell
- Fresh Eyes: The Final Chapter
- Craddick: What's the beef?
- Fresh Eyes On Sine Die
- King withdraws TXU bill
- Burnam won't quit on his in-yo'-face-Tom resolution
- Last big bill -- TXU -- appears headed for passage
- Naming names
- Auto-Craddick? Burnam resolution says so ...
- Trouble brewing? Live from the House floor ...
- Anna Mowery is retiring
- Bring on the parties: House only slightly on edge today
- Running on faith
- House to God: Help!
- The reluctant Mr. Perry
- John "Don" Carona Elected to Senate's No. 2 Post
- Craddick: We'll try again tomorrow (Monday)
- 94-0 Math is hard
- What died - at the moment - tonite?
- Anti-Craddick walkout at 12:45 a.m.
- Senate sends budget to Perry
- Haggerty gets the vote started
- Chatter: Speaker is more powerful than the Pope
- Budget nearing leap over next-to-last hurdle: Senate
- Also On The "House Has A LOT Left To Do Tonight and Senate's Way Far Ahead" List
- Water On The Way
- Talton withdraws point of order, budget debate resumes
- Craddick rejects point of order, lets budget debate go on
- Now in Talton's sights: The budget
- Buddy West: May not be back. Standing Ovation.
- LHB: for the children, against CHIP?
- Torpedo averted: CHIP bill on its way to Perry
- CHIP bill being torpedoed?
- "Very fair to Dallas"
- Team Craddick defends budget in war of words
- Keel says, call the guards. Sly: Yeah, I don't think so.
- Patriot Guard Riders get standing O
- Strama: We've gone through the looking glass
- House: New voices at the back mic
- Electricity bill is dead
- Sly to the House: "Be adults."
- House dissidents blast budget, Craddick "pork"
- CHIP deal reached
- You are there ...
- The only thing close to precedent ...
- Verdict On Dallas Law School: Headed For Dead
- Apples and oranges?
- There's another chamber, too...
- Craddick the politician
- Broken record: You're not recognized at this time
- Approaching meltdown ...
- Fair and balanced: The insurgents' response
- Land of the free, or banana republic?
- More on Craddick's rationale
- CHIP: Sylvester Turner's last offer
- The speaker's stance
- Wonder what the heck just happened?
- To adjourn or not to adjourn??
- Stalemate
- In case you're wondering...
- The Craddick rationale
- 'This is my chamber, too'
- As Rs rough each other up, Tina Benkiser says stop!
- Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy?
- Craddick the Puppet
- Take your seats, please!
- The situation as we know it
- Pinch hitting as the rules expert
- This just in
- Pandemonium
- House dissolving before our eyes?
- Patrick Watch
- Loco & Dissent Calendar is HERE!
- A Step Back -- and Forward -- For UNT Law School
- Tales of the budget conference: It's done!
- Be it resolved that we *totally rock* dude...
- And we've come full circle
- Talk About A Team Player
- House Resolutions: Better never than late
- CHIP: The endgame
- Speaker politics: What to make of this?
- House: Will ya'll please be sweet??
- House coup: The Drumbeat Picks up the Pace
- Sergeant Kept Senators in Their Seats - Most of the Time - For Two Decades
- Lt. Gov. Dewhurst Says Voter ID Bill Dead; Sen. Gallegos Departs Senate
- Was Churchill a Cintra guy?
- Water, Water, Everywhere -- Everywhere But Dallas
- Abortion Bills: Not Gonna Happen
- Uphill Climbs
- Trash Talk from across the Trinity
- Abortion Reporting Bill Runs Into Trouble
- Water Bill Frozen -- For Now
- SuperBowl 2011: The one that got away
- Lawmakers: Dallas Is A Water-Hog
- The race to the Ethics Commission
- Lucky (?) 13
- 'I applaud Chairman Cook'
- Re-regulate this!
- No brakes on the gas tax
- "Members, This Is Just A Simple Bill..."
- How Many Doctors Does It Take?
- LHB: Byron Cook was lying
- Wrapped in a Riddler, shrouded in mystery
- House: What's next?
- It ain't all speaker stuff...
- Drama in the House
- Breaking News: It hasn't happened yet
- Can that camera
- Budget talks slow, anxiety rises
- Sen. Gallegos Returns to Senate; Preserves Blockade of Voter ID Bill
- Tales of the budget conference: Guillen's dilemma
- House: No precedent? Then what was that in 1871? A baby shower?
- Ponying Up, Senate style
- Frosh Awards
- Hey Coach!
- No need for the kids to miss school, now, really!
- Dewhurst Says Voter ID Bill May Join Hanging Chads
- Kumbaya in the House - for real
- Great quote by Dunnam
- Craddick pops up on the dais
- Senate back in
- Senate Finally Convenes - Just in Time To Quit for the Day
- Tired of waiting ....
- Children, wait your turn... .
- A better photo of the Senate...
- I'm sorry, Bob Who??!!
- House reporter on Dewhurst:
- Oh, it's photo trash talk time, is it?
- Re: For the record
- Dysfunction Junction
- Re: I beg your pardon ....
- Dueling chambers: Just for the record....
- House has monopoly on dysfunction? Pshaw!
- I beg your pardon.....
- Senate Works; House Takes Two-Hour Lunch
- Meanwhile, out in the lobby....
- Kumbaya----Will It Mean Anything at the End of the Day?
- Sudden case of Senate envy
- Senate Democrats Read Up on Rules
- House vs. Senate: Fun with cross-chamber blogging
- Out of Hot Water?
- Newsflash: Craddick not backing down
- Et tu, Senate?
- Re: Keffer files for Speaker
- Keffer files for Speaker
- House has a tax-vote swap
- Point of Disorder
- Yo Quiero a Conference Committee
- More TYC Suspensions
- Bobby Knight Is On the Floor
- Senate Recognizes Texas Ranger
- End Of Life Nearly Ends
- Canine capers continue
- Pink Cadillac Alert
- An Emotional Morning
- Fresh Eyes on Horse Slaughter Sliding By
- Playing Ruff with Rob Eissler
- House: Punchy and Singularly Unmotivated
- Dunnam: The One Man P.O. Band gets a hit
- Vaught wins his first bill in the House - and it goes all the way
- Another caption opportunity
- House: the Death Watch
- Chairman Joe Driver: Life in the slow lane
- Fresh Eyes on Noisemakers in the House
- From ACLU to TYC
- Darth Vader Storms Senate
- On Taxes and Teachers
- Fresh Eyes: An Editor in the House
- What Could Possibly Be Special About It?
- Fresh Eyes: An Editor in the Senate
- On Bath Tubs and Peeping Toms
- Break Out Your Bible
- Moreno's Address
- Moreno's Return
- Update: TYC
- After All This...
- Who'll Lead The TYC?
- Stop - The Copycats - In the Name of Love
- Brown vs. Cesar Chavez ... versus Burnam
- House Chairman Pulling the Trigger
- House: Craddick weighs in
- Shooting the Hostage: Flashback
- House: 87-50 Point of Order Respectfully Overruled
- Gattis: Shoot the hostage, vote 100 percent to overrule
- Woolley and Guillen weigh in. And Dutton. Again.
- Oliveira, Hill, Talton weigh in
- By the way.... this *never* happens ...
- Dutton chubs, giving people time to get to the floor
- House: Motion to overrule the chair
- Rep. Leo Berman: Violent drug gangs mostly made up of illegal immigrants
- Smoking ban passes. Sort of.
- Smoking ban. Again. Tick-tock, people....
- House nicknames: Can't Stop Laughing
- Toll moratorium: Perry's office - can you come back another time? Like, never?
- Mother Myra
- The Riddler: Second verse, Same as the first
- Local/Consent: A hit at Craddick
- Peeling off: Local and Consent Solidarity
- A deep breath aaaaaaaand exhale
- Chariots of Ire
- House: High Noon Standoff at the L&C Ranch
- God in the Texas pledge
- Criminals? Bingo-playing rapists?
- Gaming: Hilarious quote from Pat Haggerty
- Homeland Insecurity
- House: Tears and anger
- Carrollton lawmaker receives apology
- Poker rooms back in play in the House
- Senate Sees First Filibuster - But It's Short-Lived
- Babs gets ribbed on the House floor
- Religious expression bill
- How things work
- Wonder if 'One Tough Grandma' opened the mail
- Whose vote is it?
- More Switcheroos at the TYC
- Caption This Photo
- Laney's back on the dais
- Talton: Lots of Spare Time = Lots of Points of Order
- The Long Road Home
- Ingrates and other irritations: A Kino Flores moment
- House: What's Spanish for OMG?
- All about vetoes
- Autism School Choice Bill Withdrawn
- Jessica's Law
- It's never too early...
- A Big Twist For TYC Reform Bill
- Voter ID passes after 6-hour debate
- Voter ID: 80? 65? How old is old enough?
- Voter ID: Anyone else find it amusing....
- Guidance Counselors: Just so we're clear....
- Fresh Eyes on How The Heck Does Anyone Understand A Calendar Around Here??
- Bogart flicks live on ...
- Another Reason to Buy a Hybrid Car
- Gun-smoke: Unintended Consequences
- CHL: Concealed Identities
- Re: Budget Warriors
- Budget warriors
- Drunk Boaters -- Look Out!
- House Members: Feeling Feisty or Just Waking Up?
- Romney not down with Bush?
- Gallegos returns
- Dewhurst to CHIP 'zealots': Get continuous
- Hecht, No
- Banner Day for Ds in the House
- Sale of the Lottery: Just so you know
- No guns in the galleries?
- 'Deadbeat' Dewhurst?
- House says: Down with Tolls
- Craddick and Krusee: Where's the Love??
- Good reason to get up early
- New Inspector General for TYC
- Barnes to Challenge Cornyn?
- TYC Match-up: Dallas v. Houston
- 'Attaboy, add a kid'
- House bill to partially restore CHIP survives key test
- Children's Medicaid lawsuit: scurry, scurry
- Talton and Turner and Craddick, oh my
- Loud and clear: CHIP/legal immigrants
- Farmers Branch and Reader email: CHIP/legal immigrants
- Let the record show something completely different: CHIP/immigrants
- Off-camera, on-mic: CHIP and kids of legal immigrants
- Karen Brooks' column...
- Re: House -- finally -- passes budget
- House -- finally -- passes budget
- Don't mess with Midland -- or Odessa
- Breakaway GOP members kill teacher merit pay
- Sit Down Sen. Patrick
- The Old Craddick?
- Fresh Eyes on How To Sign A Bill
- Parks Earmarks and Leadership Ds
- Score One for Texas Homeowners
- Immigration battle: A Kodak moment
- All Things Old Are New Again
- Re: And Now For Something Completely Different
- Report the Wheelbarrow - And the Cash Filling It, Senate Says
- An HHS Rift?
- Perry visits House, talks 'guy stuff'
- And Now For Something Completely Different
- Watching other legislatures, feeling better about ours
- House Democrats can't dip into unspent money
- Voting Malfunctions: I'm onto you.
- And yet another WHOA - confed statues and high drama
- I hate the words "cat fight." Hate. Them.
- Aw Hecht. Just Forget It.
- "7 or 8 members" - Asleep at the Wheel? Or just REAL surprised?
- Hoodwinks and carrots: budget writing in Texas
- WHOA. Again.
- TYC drama over prosecutors: D's win one, sort of
- Senator Nabbed by Red Light Camera
- $150 billion budget passes House appropriations
- Fightin the good fight
- They love to fight
- You are now free to move about the country
- Stand Your Ground Goes to Governor
- Suzanna Hupp, lobbyist, has a new cause
- Governor Needs No Protection
- Who me? Testify? Yeah, I'm busy...
- Fresh Eyes on the Senate
- While the Rick's Away
- Voter ID bill dead - or at least on life support
- Justice is swift and severe
- Bus Safety Measure Clears Senate
- Re: Ban on HPV mandates
- Ban on HPV mandates passes 119-21
- HPV: The Magic Number
- HPV: Pregnant 11-year-olds
- Good Thing She Said Yes
- TYC Ruckus
- When the Going Gets Tough
- Budget banter
- Perry gets his border cash - for now
- TYC Escape
- Motorcycle Man
- TYC Chief Ed Owens
- A Former Dallas Mayor In Austin
- The Special Master
- Rep Files Yet Another TYC Bill
- Liquor wars: counteroffensive by package stores
- They use punctuation in Arkansas?
- Senate Fires Off First Bill of Session
- Officers Converge on TYC Facilities
- Just wanna say:
- Double Take: Jessica's Laws
- Jessica's Laws pass 118-23
- Right-Brain Students Show Their Stuff
- New version of Jessica's Laws on House floor
- An Agreement on Jessica's Laws?
- Only In Texas
- The Dr. Seuss resolution
- Native Son
- Fresh Eyes On The House
- Pete Laney Day
- Jessica's Law
- Water Down, Sex Offenders To Go
- Insulted and Loving It
- Obscured plates
- Obama: W.P.A.? (Where da party at?)
- Obama: Familiar face
- Obama: These boots were made for walkin
- Re: Obama in Austin
- Re: Obama in Austin
- Re: Obama in Austin
- No rest for the weary
- Obama in Austin
- No love for LT?
- Fresh Eyes On Sausage-Making
- Coal permit lawyers getting down to business
- 1 small courtroom, 1 huge issue (coal plants)
- Vince Young to Houston Texans?
- Fresh Eyes on Celebrities in the House
- The conqueror returns ...
- HPV: The Aftermath
- Garnet Coleman: HPV TMI
- It's almost HPV go-time...
- Clean-coal offering
- Fresh Eyes on HPV
- Seniors Property Tax Cut
- Luv ya blue (sort of)
- Chisum apologizes, to meet with Jewish leaders
- Governor's Mailbag
- Fresh Eyes on Covering Sex at the Lege
- The root of Perry's plan
- Spending caps and shell games
- What's next, a South Park spoof?
- Capitol's Newest Millionaire
- Evolution in the House
- Letter Lingo
- Fun with senior citizens
- I-T in the Hizz
- New Fees For SOBs?
- O'Day recovering after stent
- Big babies
- Vocabulary lesson
- All Perry, all the time
- Booze Wars: More Early Posturing
- Caps bills go back to the man with the hoe
- Rep. O'Day in ICU
- Fresh Eyes on Anna Nicole Smith (sort of)
- That thump you hear ...
- New Child Safety Seat Law
- Got your back, Rick
- Fresh Eyes on the State Of The State
- Liveblogging S.O.S.: Hit 'Refresh" button often....
- S.O.S.: Cooling heels
- State of the State
- Elect-a-blogger: Pathway to Leadership
- Anchia ready to rumble
- Snakes on a Dais
- Re: Nelson to Guv
- Primary concerns
- Re: Nelson to Guv
- Nelson to Guv: Reconsider HPV order
- Say what?
- Raymond joins the blog-fest
- Patrick Cameo Update
- Compromise on 60-day rule
- Fresh Eyes on the Dallas Delegation
- Dan Patrick and the Interestingly Timed Cameo
- Dunnam: A one-man P.O. band.
- Tense moments
- Suspended Animation
- New Senate Motto
- The patter of little Rs....
- The TC: Kinder, gentler?
- Glass Half Full
- Pitts busted
- Nuge News
- Fresh Eyes on the Lt. Gov.
- Elections chair speculation
- Unhappy House members?
- No House committees today
- Nuggets from Nugent '05
- Scotty McClellan, Uncensored
- Dems plead for changes to kids' health coverage
- Coal Opponents: Fired Up
- Booze Brawl
- Sen. Madla Remembered
- Appraisal Task Force Report Out Today
- Austin lawmaker becomes a dad
- Floor fashions: bold garb
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
- The Nuge Fights Back
- Houston Senator Has Liver Transplant
- Mending Fences
- For The Dead Birds II
- Rock On, Ted
- Burger Wars, Part Two
- Next Time, Invite Kenny G Instead
- Lege adjourns until Monday
- Laura Miller: Taking One For The Team
- Baby, Baby... Where Did Our Cash Go?
- Now That's a Tasty Burger Battle
- Fresh Eyes On Inauguration
- You Be The Cutline Writer
- 'The World Is Watching'
- No Pneumonia For Perry
- Getting Out ' the House
- Local kids done good
- Update from the floor
- Recorded...not recorded....
- Worst. First Friday. Ever.
- Nice clothes
- Thanks for Not Smoking
- Aiming at the owner's box
- Loose Lips?
- Rock and Rulzzz
- Two for Fighting: Industries, not Ag
- Show the press voting "aye"
- Senator ailing
- Don't miss...
- Let the hazing begin
- Fresh Eyes On Rick Perry
- Two for Fighting
- Wind Chill Factor: 61 percent
- Today's coverage
- Conservatives on surplus: Return to sender
- Sun Setting On New Prison Construction?
- Fresh Eyes
- Dan Patrick and the Mexican Flag Incident
- No flubs by former Horned Frog outfielder
- Craddick re-elected
- Craddick survives by 6 or 7 votes?
- Pitts withdraws
- Ballots will be revealed immediately
- Geren's amendment dies
- Ballot vote still being debated
- Stealth move goes down... for the moment ... .
- Dewhurst Stays Clear of House Speaker Debate
- This delay of game brought to you by ...
- Dan Patrick Makes His Senate Debut
- Phil King whips out the stealth move
- Geren's amendment
- Hartnett made case against record votes
- Talton zinger
- Debate on vote begins ... finally
- In case you're wondering
- Translating constitution-speak
- Hurry up and wait
- Braggers
- Starting up again
- That's why they call it a "deliberative" body
- Re: See It Yourself
- See It Yourself
- The Next Entry
- Cheery Pitts
- First Foray at Rules
- Spoils of War
- Coincidence?
- T'isn't the Season
- Let's get ready to ruuuuummmmble...
- Speaker race and power (the electrical kind)
- Walk like a state representative
- Party manners, please
- Comptroller: Surplus Is $14.3B
- Practical Joker
- Downtown Austin re-opening. Birds still dead.
- More on issues
- Bird update
- Crazy grackles
- Compromise proposed in Speaker vote
- Officials: Probably not bird flu. Probably.
- Can You Say Bird Flu?
- Speaker's Race: Craddick supporters meet
- Previews, get your previews here
- Speaker's Race: Phone home
- Craddick answers critics on roll call vote
- Secret speaker vote may be made permanent
- Powwow on record votes
- Move Over, Tyra
- The speaker race and more
- No human props?
- Mr. Pitts' fast exit
- Think there's a little interest in the speaker's race?
- A new twist on prison space?
- Back in the fold
- Dems backing up?
- Mr. Speaker's fast exit
- Speaker showdown
