Rep. Angie Chen Button, R-Garland, wants to make voter ID friendlier toward Asian Americans with transliterated names. The freshman lawmaker has proposed an amendment to the contentious voter ID bill that would train poll workers to handle and appreciate...
As a tension-easing gesture, most House members today are wearing red ties -- even women. It was the idea of Rep. Chuck Hopson, D-Jacksonville. But the two parties' impasse over whether Democrats will have to spend a 5th full day...
Almost 300 Senate bills are gasping for their last breaths over in the House, the vise of delaying tactics and deadlines marking their final hours. So senators and many House members are huddling trying to find broad-based bills that have...
The House has taken 24 hours and plowed through about 65 bills in the critical final days under the Democratic gambit to slow play and kill the voter-ID bill. This morning, it began again. 175 bills and counting until we...
Be sure you don't miss Wayne Slater's Between the Lines column today on the "chubbing" drama in the House on Friday. He captures the absurdity of the dialogue perfectly. If you don't laugh at the Doobie Brothers mention, I'll be...
They're coming back at 10 a.m. Saturday. "Is there any way to object," said Rep. Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton, R-Mauriceville. "I guess," said Speaker Pro Tem Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, before quickly adjourning for the evening. Moments earlier, Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus...
A key member of House leadership, Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, says the hot-button issue of requiring photo IDs to vote will hit the House floor Saturday. Pitts, chairman of the House budget-writing panel, just told members of that committee: "Members,...
In an earlier post, we said three of four Democrats on the House Elections Committee couldn't swallow anything labeled as a voter ID bill. A spokesman for one, Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, said that's not true. It's possible, even at...
Rep. Todd Smith, R-Euless, chairman of the House Elections Committee, says he won't try to kick out a voter ID bill this weekend. He's still trying to see if committee members -- Republicans or Democrats -- can give him a...
He hasn't even gotten the Senate's voter ID bill yet. Already, though, Rep. Todd Smith, R-Euless, is being targeted by very conservative Republicans who accuse him of stall tactics. Smith heads the House Election Committee. "Important voter ID legislation needs...
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