April 25, 2023      2:36 PM

HK: Speaker Phelan wrestles with a Lt. Governor who enjoys legislative hostage shooting

Meanwhile, Abbott morphs from reasoned support of vouchers/ESAs to shrill broadside attacks on public schools and teachers

With 34 days left in the session and two weeks until the deadline for House Committee reports (May 8), much of the talk in the Texas Capitol has been the late start and seemingly slow movement of bills through the House as well as the seemingly absent Governor.

Both themes ultimately lead back to the likelihood or not of a special session or two or three.

According to venerable political numbers cruncher Bonnie Bruce, only 317 House Bills and Joint Resolutions had been passed as of last Friday compared to the sprinters in the Senate who had passed 506. One would have to go back to 2013 to see more Senate production by this time in the session (641 bills and resolutions.)

By Harvey Kronberg

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