The Trib captured every debate, tirade and joke uttered into the mikes in the House and Senate during the 82nd legislative session in our online transcripts. Our latest data apps help you identify when important debates occurred by visualizing the frequency of keywords.
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Visualizing Days of Debate: The Budget
Use the visualization and transcript highlights provided below to find what lawmakers said during the tensest days of budget negotiations as lawmakers worked to cut $15 billion in spending for 2012-2013.
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Politics
First Election Stop: San Antonio
That exhibition of musical chairs is contingent on the outcomes of several lawsuits filed against this or that piece of the new political maps drawn by the Legislature earlier this year.
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Politics
Campaign Chatter
The legislative session is over, the new maps have been drawn, and candidates are starting to make their decisions about whether to run, and for what offices.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aguilar on a change in law that affects applications for state-issued IDs, Galbraith on how the drought is taking its toll on wildlife, Hamilton on an outsider’s attempt to lower the cost of higher ed, Murphy visualizes the partisanship of House members, Ramsey on who becomes Lite Guv if David Dewhurst takes another job, Ramshaw on life in the colonias and three stories about Rick Perry — Grissom on how his death penalty stance might play in a 2012 presidential race, Root on how he cemented his reputation as one of the state’s most powerful governors and Tan on the growing demand for him to speak elsewhere: The best of our best content from July 4 to July 8, 2011.
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State Government
If Dewhurst Isn’t Lt. Governor, Who’s Next?
If Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst moves into another job — and he’s got two ways to do that — the 31 senators will elect one of their own to serve the rest of his four-year term.
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Guides
Texplainer: What Happens to a Bill Perry Doesn’t Sign or Veto?
Hey Texplainer: What happens to the bills that Perry doesn’t sign or veto? Gov. Rick Perry has vetoed and signed a multitude of bills this year, but to date there have been 27 he allowed to become law by default.
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Updated: Interactive: Visualizing the 82nd Legislative Session
Lawmakers filed a whopping 5,796 bills during the 82nd legislative session and approved nearly a quarter of them. Use our updated data visualizations to take a closer look at how bills performed in the upper and lower chambers, how each political party and committee fared, and how many bills Gov. Rick Perry vetoed.
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State Government
TribLive: Why Dewhurst Made the Ten Worst List
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, the authors of Texas Monthly’s biennial Best and Worst Legislators story explained why they put Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst on the Ten Worst list.
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Texplainer: How Often Does Perry Veto Bills?
Gov. Rick Perry is not shy when it comes to using his veto pen.
