Your afternoon reading: the revenue estimate, Tom DeLay and more Kay Bailey Hutchison speculation
2011
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State Government
Combs: Did Not Expect It To Be This Severe
In a press conference announcing a projected $72.2 billion in state revenue in 2012-2013, Comptroller Susan Combs explains why her previous estimates have been off target.
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Economy
TribBlog: The Comptroller’s Big Reveal
The state will have $77.3 billion in general revenue during the next two-year budget cycle, Comptroller Susan Combs said this morning. The comptroller estimated the Rainy Day Fund will have $9.4 billion in it at the end of the 2012-2013 biennium and that the size of the current deficit is $4.3 billion.
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The Brief: Jan. 10, 2011
Tomorrow’s the big day, but in terms of action, today might be bigger.
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State Government
A Conversation with Gonzales, Issac and Workman
Full audio from my TribLive conversation with incoming House members Larry Gonzales, R-Round Rock, Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs, and Paul Workman, R-Austin.
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State Government
Counting Straws
The House Republican Caucus will meet today to debate whether it should choose a favorite in the race for speaker of the House among the three candidates: the incumbent, Joe Straus of San Antonio, and Warren Chisum of Pampa and Ken Paxton of McKinney. But the vote’s not binding. So why do it?
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State Government
A Conversation with Gonzales, Issac and Workman
Full video from my TribLive conversation with incoming House members Larry Gonzales, R-Round Rock, Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs, and Paul Workman, R-Austin.
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State Government
A Conversation With Three Incoming House Members
For our first TribLive conversation of 2011, I interviewed Larry Gonzales, R-Round Rock; Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs; and Paul Workman, R-Austin, about the Speaker’s race, the budget shortfall, immigration, the Tea Party and how they and other newbies will navigate the 82nd legislative session.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: The House Republican Caucus Will…
For the year’s first installment of our nonscientific survey of political and policy insiders on issues of the moment, we asked whether Joe Straus would win another term as speaker, whether the next speaker should share power with the Democrats when doling out committee chairmanships and other assignments and whether the Republican Caucus is the right forum for picking the leader of the House.
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And a One, and a Two, and a…
Here’s the layout for next week, in 100 words or less: Comptroller’s release of her estimate of how much revenue the state will bring in by the end of August 2013; Tea Party rallies; GOP caucus vote on whether to show a preference for a speaker followed, maybe, by said vote; opening day with swearings-in of members (most statewides are already sworn in, with the exception of the top two, who get the treatment a week after the session starts), the official vote for speaker, and adoption of rules by the House and the Senate; and budgeteers’ release of the proposed budget for 2012-13.
