GOP Walks Last Mile…Slowly
Texas House members will be seeing a lot of this room over the next 11 days (and nights), as the 82nd Legislature hurtles toward adjournment May 30. Photo by Nathan Bernier for KUT News.Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
It seems like only yesterday that Texas Republicans walked into the legislature with a majority in the Senate and a super-majority in the House.
In fact, that was January. Now it’s May, and lawmakers are getting into “crunch time”.
As the 82nd regular session of the legislature approaches its May 30 adjournment date, Republicans are getting bogged down in their efforts to get some key issues resolved and very likely could be looking at a special session this summer.
In this week’s “Texas Political Parlor,” KUT’s Ian Crawford and Jason Embry of the Austin American-Statesman the apparent logjam, how Governor Rick Perry’s intervention could break that logjam and how real the possibility of a special session is.
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