September 16, 2017
The Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas has honored Sen. Kirk Watson of Austin and Rep. Giovanni Capriglione of Southlake with its Open Government Lawmaker of the Year Award. T...
Read MoreAugust 18, 2017
I rise to ask for the Senate to engage in a moment of silence for those who were killed and injured in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. Some of them stepped up to oppose the immoral hatred an...
Read MoreJune 8, 2017
I found out recently that I’m going to be a grandfather. My son and his wife will have a little girl at the end of November. She’ll be named Francis Ellen. They like the way her initials sound. Fr...
Read MoreMay 28, 2017
The broad outlines of the 2018-19 state budget were drawn two years ago when the Legislature made short-sighted tax cuts and other decisions that severely reduced by $9 billion the revenue needed to p...
Read MoreMay 28, 2017
Senate Bill 8 once again places the State in the position of deciding how a woman should exercise her constitutional right to an abortion. Instead of recognizing a woman's freedom to make personal cho...
Read MoreMay 22, 2017
So much effort has gone into this session to address a very real crisis in our system of child protection. We started the session with recognition that our state wasn’t acting in the best interest ...
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