Archive for March 30th, 2009

Stop in the name of Carona

Dallas Senator Carona (no lime, please) managed to eek out a victory for his sobriety checkpoint bill today. Ah, big things and big ideas never get past this group, do they?
Define irony: Texas senators debating sobriety. Something they wouldn’t know about even if it were defined on the bottom of a glass of scotch.
The CDC [...]

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Budget limps out of committee

The Senate Finance Committee sent the budget to the floor with a 14-0 vote. The $177 billion budget is not controversy-free…but then again when is anything up there controversy-free. (Well, everybody loves taco day at the cafeteria, but besides that)
Senator Zaffirini complained about the ban on funds for embryonic stem cell research and Lucio complained [...]

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