The latest Rick Perry news from The Texas Tribune.
The U.S. Department of Justice informed the Texas secretary of state’s office it has yet to provide the federal government sufficient information about the contentious voter ID law, which could possibly affect the bill's scheduled implementation date of Jan. 1. Full Story
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Debates have nearly led to Rick Perry's undoing, but the governor thinks he could at least take Nancy Pelosi. Full Story
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Texans who gave big money to Kay Bailey Hutchison to try to unseat Rick Perry for governor in 2010 haven’t gelled around a single candidate in the presidential race. In fact, the majority of them seem to still be sitting on the sidelines. Full Story
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The Perry presidential campaign's latest ad targets President Barack Obama's recent use of the word "lazy" to describe Americans. "That's pathetic," Perry says in the video. Full Story
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This week on the TribCast, Ross, Reeve, Ben and Mark talk post-"Oops" Perry, his proposal to make the U.S. Congress more like the Texas Legislature, and a recent wrong turn for Formula 1 racing in Austin. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry is urging Americans to “browbeat” members of Congress into accepting his plan to slash their pay and limit the amount of they spend in Washington. It's part of Perry's pitch to dramatically reform government. Full Story
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In Gov. Rick Perry's grand plan to take a sledgehammer to Washington, some see a few holes. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry wants lawmakers who use “insider knowledge to profit in the stock market” to be jailed. But his critics argue that at home, his personal and political relationships have been entangled in ways that helped him profit financially Full Story
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The first chancellor of WGU Texas — the state’s new nonprofit, online university — on his new position, how WGU Texas is different from the national Western Governors University, and the future of online education. Full Story
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In Iowa today, Gov. Rick Perry promised he would bring an outsider's approach to Washington, D.C. The GOP presidential candidate promised he would "overhaul" the judicial and legislative branches of government. Full Story
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Rick Perry has yet another policy-driven reboot plan in store — and this time, he's going big. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry is proposing to bring a little Texas to Washington — with a “part-time citizen Congress” that doesn’t meet so often, and whose members earn only half of what they make now. Perry will also call for an end to lifetime appointments for federal judges, including members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Full Story
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Lost in the clamor around Gov. Rick Perry's debate stumble last week is that he's calling for the elimination of three federal agencies. As Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, actually accomplishing that is hard to do. Full Story
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In a new web-only ad posted on YouTube, Gov. Rick Perry takes aim at congressional insider trading — the subject of a 60 Minutes segment last night. Full Story
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Rick Perry will famously remember the three federal agencies he wants to shut down in a key policy speech in Iowa on Tuesday, but the “oops” heard around the world is still a big hurdle here. Full Story
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For Rick Perry, it may take more than his solid showing at Saturday's foreign policy debate to erase the "oops." Full Story
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On last night's episode of Saturday Night Live, the so-called cold open — the sketch prior to the opening credits — predictably mocked Gov. Rick Perry's brain freeze. Full Story
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After Gov. Rick Perry's disastrous "brain freeze" earlier this week, many were watching tonight for a fresh stumble in a debate in South Carolina that would spell the end of the campaign. Instead, he gave perhaps his best performance to date. Full Story
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Just a few days after his disastrous “brain freeze” during a nationally televised debate in Michigan, Gov. Rick Perry is back under the bright lights tonight. This time, he’ll be in challenging issue territory: foreign policy. We’ll be liveblogging tonight’s CBS News/National Journal Debate here. Full Story
Ramshaw and Root on the debate that dominated the nation's political news, Tan and Ramshaw on how it will affect Rick Perry's campaign, Philpott on what "oops" might mean for Perry in South Carolina, Root on what it means in Iowa, Dehn with the latest Weekend Insider video, Galbraith on the split fates of water-related constitutional amendments, Grissom on an arrest in a 1986 murder case, Hamilton on UT-Arlington's efforts to control tuition costs and M. Smith, Murphy and Gerdau on West Texas schools raising money with wind farms: The best of our best content from November 7 to 11, 2011. Full Story
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