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August 4, 2025 3:03 PM
Burrows says there will be consequences for actions of quorum-busting Democrats
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August 3, 2025 11:26 PM
Abbott on social
media made it sound as if he has the power to declare Texas House offices
vacant by invoking an AG opinion from Ken Paxton in 2021. It says no such thing
and isn’t the law anyway.
You can read what Paxton
said in 2021 right here, which just says courts could maybe eventually
figure out if an office was vacant.
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August 3, 2025 10:53 PM
Abbott also said "It seems to me that the only way some of the fleeing Democrats can avoid bribery charges is to not break quorum. It seems that would eliminate any potential quid pro quo connected to any payment they received to deny a quorum and skip a vote."
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August 3, 2025 3:53 PM
“This is not a decision we make lightly, but it is one we make with absolute moral clarity,” Chair Wu said. “Governor Abbott has turned the victims of a historic tragedy into political hostages in his submission to Donald Trump.”
The Texas
House Democratic Caucus confirmed Sunday afternoon that at least 51 of
their members leaving the state right now – enough to deny GOP leadership a
quorum on Monday when a proposed congressional map designed to add 5 more
Republican seats is slated for floor debate.
Various sources
indicated the number of House Democrats leaving was around 55 or 56, something
like that. It’s our understanding that those House Democrats will mostly head
to Chicago and Albany with a number of them also in
Boston, the site of this week’s National Conference of State Legislatures.
Of course, veterans know that during a quorum break, it doesn’t really matter
where they are. It matters where they ain’t. The caucus
this afternoon also launched this
website called “Rigged Redistricting.”
In a written
statement, the caucus said the move was intended to create “a firewall against
an unprecedented crisis of inaction created by Governor Greg Abbott’s
dereliction of duty and his submission to Donald Trump’s demands” to
redraw seats in Houston, DFW, Austin, and South Texas.
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August 3, 2025 3:13 PM
A statement from the caucus is expected this afternoon
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August 3, 2025 9:01 AM
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August 2, 2025 9:29 AM
Democrats sounded bitter and angry as the GOP leadership most of them voted for steamrolled the minority party in the select committee on congressional redistricting
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August 1, 2025 2:56 PM
Power players, staffing changes, association news, and more
There’s been
so much energy in the building this past week you could mistake it for a regular
session in full swing: News conferences, leaks to the press, lobby in the
gallery, the Senate moving quicker but not necessarily smarter
than the House, etc.
On top of
that, field hearings in Houston, DFW, and Kerrville saw state government
showing in places where most civilians don’t usually give any of this much
thought – certainly at this time of year, anyway. And for all the talk that
this special session is focused on flooding response, property taxes, and banning
THC, the real urgency is instead focused on a mid-decade redistricting driven
by President Donald Trump, spurring a personal appearance by national
Democratic leadership at the Texas Capitol. The pedal is hittin’ the metal now so buckle up, y’all. The rough water
is ahead.
Meantime,
political professionals are making moves, starting new ventures, and one longtime
veteran is departing Texas for the first time in nearly three decades. People
on the Move, as you know, is the most efficient way to let the entire Texas
Capitol community know about your new gig. You can also brag on a
friend or tattle on an adversary by sending the scoop to ksbraddock@gmail.com. If you use POTM in
the subject line, it makes it easier to keep it all straight. Thanks so much.
Here’s the
latest edition:
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August 1, 2025 9:36 AM
Quorum Report Editor Scott Braddock and the Dean of Texas talk radio Mark Davis visited about redistricting, the proposed THC ban, and more
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July 31, 2025 4:44 PM
“Counties should not be faced with the funding of alert systems through local property taxes, which is basically our only form of income, and which have been capped or reduced through property tax relief over the years”
Legislators
on the Select Disaster Preparedness & Flooding Committee traveled
to Kerrville today to hear from elected officials and others who were at the
center of the storm when the July 4th Central Texas floods killed
180 people, ripping apart families and calling local and state leadership into
question.
Despite
the brow beating of local officials, one clear takeaway was that flooding
simply happens, and emergency response infrastructure is woefully lacking in
rural Texas. There was also ample pushback to Lt. Gov.
Dan Patrick and Speaker Dustin Burrows’ policy priority over the years
of restricting the way local governments can raise and spend revenue. That’s
just as the Senate prepares – as we told you first yesterday at Quorum Report –
to further rein in cities and counties with a tighter tax cap under the proposed
language in Senate Bill 9.
Among the
most common solutions proposed by lawmakers has been installing louder -and
more – sirens in those areas.
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July 31, 2025 4:40 PM
"It won't just happen in Texas, I imagine Trump is making similar calls across the country and it's a big deal...we're going to respond in a transparent way," Newsom said during a news conference this afternoon. Developing...
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July 30, 2025 8:04 PM
Motion failed 6-3 along party lines
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July 30, 2025 3:39 PM
SB9 to be changed to set the rollback rate at 2.5% for cities and counties over 30k population
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July 30, 2025 9:03 AM
The bill's been referred and a hearing is set for Friday at 10am
Here’s the link to the info
incluiding the map
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July 30, 2025 7:33 AM
Punchbowl news in Washington reports: Cuellar and Vicente Gonzales in the RGV move to +10 Trump districts, Julie Johnson district drawn Republican, Casar and Doggett are paired in Central Texas, Veasey likely loses the Fort Worth part of the district, and incumbent Houston Democrats all have seats to run in because of the vacancy in CD 18
Here’s the
scoop from
Punchbowl News
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July 29, 2025 9:58 AM
Chair Phil King agreed with Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Alvarado that a vote could be held on live stream but he’s waiting for an opinion from legislative attorneys on the committee’s authority
Texas
Senate Democrats are
pushing to subpoena the Trump Administration Department of Justice
official at the center of this mid-decade redistricting.
But Texas
Senate Redistricting Committee Chairman Phil King, R-Weatherford,
on Tuesday morning said he would like to first see an advisory opinion from
legislative attorneys on whether the panel has the authority to do that.
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