Listen to Attorney General Greg Abbott explain why he and other attorneys general are suing the federal government over the just-passed health care reform bill.
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HuTube: Another Reason to Love C-SPAN
Did you miss your Texas lawmaker’s floor speech on health care reform yesterday? No fear. C-SPAN’s new video library (still in beta) has the video for you.
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TribBlog: Neugebauer Shouted “Baby Killer”
“I have apologized to Mr. Stupak and also apologize to my colleagues for the manner in which I expressed my disappointment about the bill,” says U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Lubbock.
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Did a Texas Rep. Shout “Baby Killer”?
An elected official shouted “Baby killer!” at Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, and a California Republican is saying it was a Texan. Which Texan? “The people who know won’t give it up,” he says.
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TribBlog: Health Care Passes; Texans Sound Off
House lawmakers passed the Senate version of long-awaited health care reform on Sunday night. And Texas leaders were quick to fire off on it.
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TribBlog: Texas “Fully Engaged” in Health Care Challenge
“It’s just a question of whether to file our own lawsuit or join a multistate effort,” says Attorney General Greg Abbott.
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TribBlog: Cuellar Votes Aye
The Laredo congressman will support federal health care reform legislation.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Grissom on the 1.2 million Texans who’ve lost their licenses under the Driver Responsibility Act and the impenetrable black box that is the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Ramshaw and Kraft on nurses with substance abuse problems and rehabilitation that can get them back to work, M. Smith finds it’s not easy being Rick Green, Stiles on counting Texans (and everybody else), Rapoport on the State Board of Education’s war with itself and the runoff in SBOE District 10, Thevenot’s revealing interview with a big-city superintendent on closing bad schools, Aguilar on the tensions over water on the Texas-Mexico border, Hamilton on the new Coffee Party, Hu on Kesha Rogers and why her party doesn’t want her, Philpott on the runoff in HD-47, Ramsey on Bill White and the politics of taxes, and E. Smith’s conversation with Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heleimann: The best of our best from March 15 to 19.
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TribBlog: Cuellar Still on the Fence
Laredo Congressman Henry Cuellar is one of the last undecided House members mulling over the federal health care bill. He still has a few concerns.
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TribBlog: State Leaders To Congress: Vote Against Health Reform
Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus sent a firmly-worded letter to members of Congress today, urging them to vote against health care reform in Washington, or, as they dub it, “the federal government’s takeover of health care.” A vote is expected on Sunday.