House Speaker Joe Straus said the controversial bathroom bill felt “manufactured and unnecessary.”
Joe Straus
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Politics
Watch House Speaker Joe Straus discuss the Texas legislative session
Watch a livestream of Texas House Speaker Joe Straus discussing the 85th Legislative Session with Jim Henson of the Texas Politics Project.
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State Government
Straus agrees with Patrick on their different audiences
In a radio interview Thursday, House Speaker Joe Straus said Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has a different audience than he does. “He’s an entertainer, a talk show guy. And a statewide elected official. I’m not,” Straus said.
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TribCast
Budget priorities, local control and school choice (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Aman about Gov. Greg Abbott’s budget priorities, his comments on local control, the school choice drama in the Legislature and AG Ken Paxton’s concerns about Muslim prayer in a public school.
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State Government
Analysis: Cutting the Texas budget, even with money on hand
If Texas legislators cut the state budget this year, it won’t be because they didn’t have the money. It’ll be because they didn’t want to spend the money they have.
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Politics
In Texas House, uncertain fate of bathroom bill could reverberate
The Texas “bathroom bill” has made it to the House but chamber leaders are hinting that the controversial legislation may never reach the chamber’s floor for a vote.
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State Government
Analysis: The party in power in Texas acts more like two parties at war
The leadership battles in the Texas Legislature are often attributed to personalities — or to traditional House-Senate rivalries. But there’s another factor: The Republicans in power are from different factions of their party.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: A popular governor, an unpopular Congress
The performance and favorability ratings in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll hold good news for Gov. Greg Abbott among individuals and for the military and the police among institutions.
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Health care
Texas House bills lay out some initial plans to overhaul CPS
Texas representatives have filed legislation to start an overhaul of the the state’s Child Protective Services, following a crisis that has left thousands of kids at risk.
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Demographics
Like the Texas Legislature at large, committee chairs are mostly white men
Most of the members of the Texas Legislature are white men — and so are the committee chairs.
