May 27, 2015 5:14 PM

Tensions between House and Senate cause tax repeal measure to die

“I’m not afraid to send this bill back to the Senate with an amendment. I’m not afraid of the Senate getting this back with an amendment,”

The Texas House thumbed its nose at the Senate on a tax bill that collapsed on Memorial Day after lawmakers buried it with dead and dying House bills.

Rep. Sefronia Thompson, D-Houston, already has made headlines for mocking the apparently dead Tesla Motors bill by suggesting “Mr. Tesla” maybe should have sat down with the automobile dealers before elbowing his way into the market.

Rep. John Wray, R-Waxahachie, made some attempts to keep Senate Bill 759 clean on its way back over to the Senate, but Thompson dismissed the effort, asking her colleagues how many House bills had returned with Senate amendments. That drew a roar of approval from Thompson’s colleagues.

By Kimberly Reeves