, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.has taken to flashing two wads of cash in a series of TV interviews: $1,060 in one hand and $800 in the other.
by name, deriding the Beaumont Republican as “California Dade” and mocking the House’s property tax plan as “bad math” to put public pressure on the House to pass the Senate’s version of the bill. The House, Patrick complained, has not only been slow to act on Senate priorities, it’s been moving slowly on House bills as well. Unless the House picks up the pace in sending legislation to the upper chamber, some of those bills will die before they can be considered, he said.social mediaPhelan has taken a less confrontational approach, downplaying the interchamber rancor and highlighting legislation the House has already passed.
Matt Rinaldi, chair of the Republican Party of Texas, said he is concerned that some of the party’s biggest priorities have not been taken up by the House. "Thank goodness Travis didn't have the speaker at the Alamo," Patrick said at the time."He would've been the first one over the wall." That same day, the House approved an amendment to the state budget banning the use of “school vouchers or other similar programs.