Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker Dade Phelan’s just-completed lists of priority bills illustrate not only how the two wings of the Texas GOP remain at fierce...
to hawk if he were to decide to launch a presidential campaign later this year.
Included in the lists of both Patrick and Phelan are bills that would cut property taxes, keep sexually explicit books out of public school libraries and rein in district attorneys in Texas’ big-metro counties whom the GOP deems “soft on crime.” The two chambers are prioritizing bills that would set mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes — the Senate, for offenses committed with a gun; the House, for illegal activities at the Texas-Mexico border.
When it comes to border security, the two lists obscure long-standing political reality but signal feuding that’s likely to erupt between the two GOP-controlled chambers. Two years ago, Schaefer, aided by Phelan, forced Patrick and Abbott to reconsider and embrace the permitless-carry gun bill, which Abbott signed.
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