February 23, 2015 5:42 PM

Updated: Texas House leaders say tax cuts could top $4 billion

“We really believe that we ought to be able to do more than $4 billion in tax cuts here in the House,” Bonnen said. “We don’t have a number at this point. We just know that we can do better than that.”

Peggy Fikac at the Express-News gets the interview with House Ways and Means Chairman Dennis Bonnen in which he said “we can do better” than the Texas Senate’s proposed tax cuts.

Just after 7pm, the House Republican Caucus issued the following statement:

“The Texas House made it very clear from the start of this session that major tax relief will be a cornerstone of the state budget. Today the statements by Chairman Dennis Bonnen and Speaker Joe Straus echo the commitment that Republicans have made to return a sizeable portion of our unappropriated revenue to its rightful owners, the taxpayers of this state. The Texas Model is built upon the principle that tax relief and fiscally responsible spending plans will generate economic prosperity, and Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives are fully committed to this vision.”