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and after that, they voted themselves a 4 day weekend (If I understood the resolution properly)..
Can I vote myself a 4 day weekend and STILL not do all my work?

And the bill passed - for the hospital district in El Paso to get a police force for itself

And now Sen Ellis says that some of the people "want to put "Handguns in every dorm" and "AK-47s" in everyones hands", and they are fighting putting a police force

So Sen. Ellis is comparing the hospital with university

The reason for it is that they 'feel unsafe' as there are potentials for violence as a number of the patients are there due to the cartel targeting them.
He stated that other hospitals around the country have had violence and they are scared.

There is more PROVEN violence on campus where there is ALREADY Police Forces.... well, what good will this do? Gee...

Jasonw560 wrote:Well? Any news?

nope
and if it goes like yesterday, about 2:30 they will adjourn 1/2 hour early, without getting to it...

austinrealtor wrote:I think they get paid TOO MUCH

If we were talking about the US Senators I would agree totally, but the State Senators get I believe $600 per month to do that job, and even if they worked ONLY 4 hours per day and say 20 days per month, that is still only $7.50/hr, which is pretty low

well, as they are making general announcements and are talking about closing for the day, I guess another day goes by without any forward movement on this...

While I know they don't get paid a whole lot, but are obviously making money elsewhere to be able to afford to work in our Senate, I just dont understand what they do.


oh.. and now they are Adjourned until 11am tomorrow

RPB wrote:Now it's the second Electricity P.U.C. bill

Yea, thats the feeling I was getting as well, Sen Davis apparently wants to stall some 'other bills' today,
How the heck does she 3 or 4 different amendments (so far) that basically say the exact SAME THING!

We need a much better government system, .... yes, I know... .what would do? Well, nothing really, as we would have to kick out ALL current politicians and rewrite ALL of the procedures of the House and Senate

Jasonw560 wrote:Hope I didn't miss anything.

nope, didnt miss anything

Jasonw560 wrote:Have Lucio and Hinojosa been doing their mini-filibustering thing on bills?

there was one that seemed that way, but hasn't been to rampant

Jasonw560 wrote:Well, he does listen to his constituents.

He probably thinks so, but really, are those he is "defending" his constituents, or illegal's?

So the floor is done and they didn't talk about SB354.......
Am I missing something here?

RHenriksen wrote:http://www.senate.state.tx.us/streamav/ext/ch1.ram

Thanks

Do you have a link handy?