"I ask you, how can monitoring elk be more important than wounded soldiers?" an irate Craddick ally asked a top lieutenant of Speaker Joe Straus late this afternoon. Boy, House members are testy today. The questioner was Rep. Kino Flores,...
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rene Oliveira, D-Brownsville, wants more small businesses exempted from the business -- or margins -- tax. But because state finances look to be shaky next session, Oliveira wants the greater exemption to be temporary....
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