Bring on the parties: House only slightly on edge today
See? I told you everything would be OK.
The $103 million parks funding bill, HB 12, was just brought up without objection and passed easily.
And they're about to pass the CPS bill without objection,
We've been in less than half an hour. WOW. They're working more efficiently today than they have in months.
There are a couple moments - Rep. Jim Dunnam just asked the speaker to remove his press release from the House website denouncing members (no names) for last night. I saw the statement in an email, but it appears to be gone from the House website now. And Rep. Dan Branch is trying to get them to remove Pat Haggerty's roll call speech from the journal, but the speaker is looking like he's going to make them vote on that - which I doubt Branch wants.
What this means is that it's looking good for getting out of here in time to enjoy at least SOME of the Sine Die parties - which is my number one survival motivation at this point in the session.
Comments
The best thing about this Sine Die is that I can finally stop caring about your biased coverage of the Speaker's challenges...amen.
Posted by: Anna Molly | May 28, 2007 3:14 PM
What are you trying to do, jinx us? I've still got my whole lineup awaiting me: water, homeland and border security, prisons, TXU... (If you ask me, Karen's had the party started all session long!) :)
Posted by: Em | May 28, 2007 3:24 PM
Now Anna, that's not very warm and fuzzy for the last day of the session, is it?
Posted by: Em | May 28, 2007 3:26 PM
I think Brooks should go to all of the Sine Die parties as to not show bias against anyone.
Posted by: Marie | May 28, 2007 3:38 PM
Marie - count on it, girl! You're comin to ours, right???
Anna - *sigh* If that's the best thing about Sine Die for you, someone really ought to teach you how to party.
p.s. Technically, you never *had* to care about any of this stuff anyway. All you, baby.
Posted by: Brooks | May 28, 2007 4:10 PM
Biased? Some people can't stand it when facts are given a bit of sunlight. Karen, you have done a magnificent job.
Posted by: Jack | May 28, 2007 6:39 PM
As a pro-business conservative who follows politics pretty closely, I read several texas newspapers every day. Every day I save Karen Brooks article for the last thing I read in the morning because it is a story I know will be insightful and well written. Anytime a journalist is willing to pull back the layers of a story, the journalist will be accused of bias depending on who is offended by the truth the journalist unveils.
In Texas, we are blessed with an exceptional capitol press corp. Karen is as good as the come with the added bonus of being exceptionally funny at times.
Posted by: rks | May 28, 2007 8:14 PM