State Lawmakers' Holiday Talking Points
The election is behind them and the first round of bills is filed. Texas lawmakers will have plenty to talk about around the Thanksgiving table, including the House speaker's race.
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Andrew Goldberg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
hmmm let's see, first up will be a bill to allow guns in elementary schools, then a redistricting that will prevent any Democrat ever being elected to any office ever again, then guns in preschools, then it will be removing dinosaurs from text books, then a new bill to replace Texas' teachers with "talking" bibles on PC's...
Kenneth Franks
How about stricter regulations on payday lenders. They seem to be able to charge over 600% APR rates by using one of the loopholes in current law according to an article in The Texas Observer by Forest Wilder.