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The Brief: Top Texas News for April 4, 2011

by David Muto
April 4, 2011
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The Big Conversation:

The House did its dance over the weekend, passing a stark $164.5 billion budget that left virtually no area of state government untouched.

Debate began Friday morning, ran until roughly 1 a.m. Saturday morning and resumed Sunday. (The Tribune team was there the whole way.) The budget bill, which cuts $23 billion altogether from areas like public education and health and human services, was approved on a largely party-line vote, 98-49, late Sunday night.

"It lives within the available revenue that we have to work with," House Appropriations Chairman Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, said of the ...

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April 4, 2011 @ 8:08 a.m.

W.R. Greene via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Another problem Texans in the bottom 90 percent or so economically have, though, is that ANY "revenue enhancements" EVER PASSED in a corporate-controlled Legislature (such as we have nearly always had in my lifetime) will be REGRESSIVE in nature. Count on it. Be careful what you ask for, peons, would be my advice here.
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April 4, 2011 @ 8:36 a.m.

David Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Thank goodness that the Senate has SOME sane folks in there running things. We can hope that reason prevails.
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April 4, 2011 @ 8:57 a.m.

Allen Michie via Texas Tribune on Facebook

And it's not like that's a very high bar to pass, either.
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April 4, 2011 @ 10:23 a.m.

Michael JJ Messer via Texas Tribune on Facebook

So our Texas House representatives made their push toward a double-dip recession. It is time for our senators to make a stand. We need some real heroes right now, because if they continue with this ludicrous budget, we will see unemployment skyrocket in Texas. Please contact your senators and let them know that cutting spending without fixing the root cause of our deficit will not solve the problem, and we will once again be in this situation in five years. We have a structual deficit. They know the truth, and so should you:

http://www.window.state.tx.us/news/60515letter.html
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April 4, 2011 @ 12:25 p.m.

Tim Hurst via Texas Tribune on Facebook

It's totally typical of the Texas Legislature. Mean grumpy scared old white men.
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April 4, 2011 @ 12:48 p.m.

Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook

This budget is just horrible if you a liberal. Texas will probably add another 5 House seats in the next census and they will all be Republican.
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April 4, 2011 @ 1:56 p.m.

Connor Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Funny how that happens...Tim mentions "mean grumpy scared old white men" and Puppydog Man, like a moth to the flame, posts within minutes!
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April 5, 2011 @ 9:25 a.m.

Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Mcclure- Yes you people will try to make them GOP (new seats) through bleaching and other steps to ensure minority votes DONT COUNT! And we thought Dixiecrats and Jim Crow is dead.
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