This week’s edition of WFAA-TV’s Inside Texas Politics with host Jason Whitely and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram‘s Bud Kennedy has the Star-Telegram’s D.C. Bureau Chief Maria Recio sitting in for the Tribune’s Executive Editor Ross Ramsey. On today’s show: an extended interview with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick; Republicans’ opposition to the Export-Import Bank; presidential hopeful Jeb Bush’s comments on the Iraq war; that swimming pool incident in McKinney; and more. 

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