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2 If the candidates for President next time were Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump, who would you vote for? Bernie Sanders 51% ............................................... Donald Trump 41% ................................................. Not sure 8% suck a dick beto
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PostNouveau posted:Bernie woulda beat Ted Cruz Maybe if he didn't use Jeff Weaver to manage his campaign.
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Jan 23, 2019 01:42
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Kel Seliger, #resistance icon
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Kel Seliger, #resistance icon I mean, they need his vote on property taxes, which they didn't have last session.
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1088070799070765056quote:Sen. Larry Taylor, the Friendswood Republican who chairs the Senate Education Committee, told a group of free-market conservatives earlier this month that school choice "is not going to be the focus this session" and "not part of the school finance bill." That's a far cry from 2017, when he authored the Senate's bill for private school tuition subsidies. https://twitter.com/katieglueck/status/1087848816525611008 This is good, I can't make fun of this at all 
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Jan 23, 2019 15:16
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zoux posted:This is good, I can't make fun of this at all A boring clock no one gives a poo poo about should still be able to tell the time.
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House committee assignments are coming out, up to 10 Dem chairs (!) https://twitter.com/evanasmith/status/1088113492207566848 https://twitter.com/cassi_pollock/status/1088112073064833024  https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1088115629532557313 12 Dem chairs in total, one Freedom Caucus chair Pancho Nevarez chairing Public Safety pretty much puts paid to any constitutional carry nonsense zoux fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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I assume speaker appointments are exactly what they sound like, but what is a seniority appointment to a committee? Like you were on the committee last session and had enough seniority to merit staying on?
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Section 2. Determination of Membership — (a) Membership on the standing committees shall be determined at the beginning of each regular session in the following manner: (1) For each standing substantive committee, a maximum of one-half of the membership, exclusive of the chair and vice-chair, shall be determined by seniority. The remaining membership of the committee shall be appointed by the speaker. (2) Each member of the house, in order of seniority, may designate three committees on which he or she desires to serve, listed in order of preference. The member is entitled to become a member of the committee of his or her highest preference on which there remains a vacant seniority position. (3) If members of equal seniority request the same committee, the speaker shall appoint the member from among those requesting that committee. Seniority, as the term is used in this subsection, shall mean years of cumulative service as a member of the house of representatives. (4) After each member of the house has selected one committee on the basis of seniority, the remaining membership on each standing committee shall be filled by appointment of the speaker, subject to the limitations impos
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Poncho Nevarez is chair of Homeland Security lol
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zoux posted:Section 2. Determination of Membership — (a) Membership on the Cheers, good to know.
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TropicalCoke posted:Poncho Nevarez is chair of Homeland Security lol Someone hook a transformer up to Tim Dunn right now, I imagine we can get some serious megawatts off of him
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Much to Empower Texas' chagrin, yes. Even the Senate has 2 Dem chairman (though Lucio is debatably Democratic) https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1088132635380068353 Not a huge fan of Shelia Jackson Lee so, retire.
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Like ... why? I assume the power to name chairmen resides with the Republicans.
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To stick it to freedom caucus and Dan Patrick, and to show good faith to Democrats for the session. Everything has to pass out of the house and senate and then to the governor so its not like Republicans lost control of those checks. And a Republican is chairman of scheduling the votes for Bills in the house.
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PostNouveau posted:Like ... why? I assume the power to name chairmen resides with the Republicans. Business Republicans just want to keep the gravy train going without stupid culture war bullshit and they need Democrats on board to do that
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PostNouveau posted:Like ... why? I assume the power to name chairmen resides with the Republicans. I know that we're all irony poisoned cynics who only care about who can sneer the most at government but at the state level, at least, lawmakers believe in some level of compromise and bipartisanship. Dan Patrick and the Freedom Caucus were anomalous in that regard, as relates to statehouse traditions. Lots of government business gets done based on personal relationships and traditions and gentlemen's agreements and the loss of that at the federal level is one reason why Washington is utterly dysfunctional. zoux fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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zoux posted:url]https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1088132635380068353[/url] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/Sheila-Jackson-Lee-lawsuit-sexual-assault-13555283.php quote:The lawsuit, filed by a woman who worked in Jackson Lee's office from November 2017 to March 2018, claimed that she was dismissed after notifying the congresswoman's chief of staff that she planned to pursue a sexual assault case against a foundation supervisor. She is identified in court records only as "Jane Doe" who worked as a special assistant and director of public engagement. e: oh and they go on quote:The woman was hired by Jackson Lee's office two years later after she graduated from Howard.
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No Safe Word posted:https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/Sheila-Jackson-Lee-lawsuit-sexual-assault-13555283.php The unidentified woman who lives at 123 Main Street and driver's license number is
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someone on Cornyn's staff is just copy/pasting federal agencies from wikipedia into his twitter account please send help https://twitter.com/Oydeedoydeedoy/status/1087804756465254407
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Maybe some popular democrat should stay the gently caress in Texas and run against him in 2020
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No Safe Word posted:https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/Sheila-Jackson-Lee-lawsuit-sexual-assault-13555283.php A lot of newspapers have loving bizarre rules about what they do and don't publish. In this case they'd say they technically didn't publish her name because they have a policy against it or something. I've worked at papers where they'll talk about cases involving, say, a teacher sleeping with a student, and the story will point out it's against policy to name victims in sex crimes but then name the victim's parents.
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Good poo poo https://twitter.com/RobertTGarrett/status/1088522843413975041 quote:“When one person has lost the confidence of other senators and is disruptive, then I have to address that,” Patrick told The News on Wednesday. “Last night, a number of senators and myself held hands and prayed for him because we don’t like that this has happened.” https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1088510314977656832 Also woooooo  What's up now haters zoux fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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Jan 24, 2019 20:54
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Devil goat is pro-Beto spin, people are actually calling him a furry lmao.
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https://twitter.com/forrest4trees/status/1088530390485270531?s=12 Jewish Senator Remember Patrick’s dark lords Tim Dunn and Steve Hotze constantly dog whistled about Strauss being Jewish
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Just waiting for someone to tweet (((Kel)))
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Anyway, the Gov, Lt. Gov and Speaker were adamant about pushing property tax reform of the type Seliger opposed when he wasn’t being personally lied about and insulted in public by the Lt. Gov so don't see that happening (in the regular anyway the tactic the GOP used before they lowered the threshold from 2/3s to 3/5ths was to say the supermajority rule doesn’t count in the special and pass poo poo then. That's how we got voter ID, I'd expect it again if Dems + Seliger block prop. tax cuts during the regular)
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Lol the SPB is having a hearing to decide what to do with The Plaque and we got public comment, folks https://twitter.com/briannasttone/status/1088821317753884677 https://twitter.com/briannasttone/status/1088826018973003778 https://twitter.com/briannasttone/status/1088828973486931968
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I mean, that is fair. I'm not sure what they think having more diversity would have changed about the decision, but it's a fair criticism.
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Well the Governing Board is the Governor, Lt. Gov and Speaker so talk to the electorate I guess. There is a single member of each chamber appointed, the Senate hasn't done one yet this session and the House rep is Jeff Leach. 
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zoux posted:Well the Governing Board is the Governor, Lt. Gov and Speaker so talk to the electorate I guess. There is a single member of each chamber appointed, the Senate hasn't done one yet this session and the House rep is Jeff Leach. "Breakfast at the Border"...in San Antonio.
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Ah yes, San Antonio. The border town with big beautiful walls that have a proven track record of stopping Mexicans. #RemembertheAlamo.
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Technical Analysis posted:Ah yes, San Antonio. The border town with big beautiful walls that have a proven track record of stopping Mexicans. #RemembertheAlamo. I guarantee you 99% of non-Texans and probably a significant portion of Texans think we won at the Alamo
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