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The 'Killer Bees' offer a strategic roadmap for Texas Democrats' latest quorum break
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breaking quorum, just literally walking out so that there are not enough members present to conduct business. it s a kind of break glass sort of move. it s happened just four times in the long 175-year history of the texas legislature. in 1870, it happened when 13 texas senators walked out in protest of a militia bill. they were arrested by the governor s forces. in 1979, a group of 12 senators hid from the statehouse for days to prevent a quorum on two bills related to primary elections. again this morning, lieutenant governor bill hobby called senators to order, and once again no quorum. the killer bees gone have they have been since friday. the 12 fugitive senators have eluded 50 full-time state pa troltmen, investigators and texas rangers. police even searched by helicopter, and in mexico. but patrolmen failed and so were nicknamed the bumblebees. it happened again in 2003 when 50 democrats fled to oklahoma, breaking quorum in the
Commentary: Patrick shouldn t play political games with Senate rules
Bill Ratliff, David Sibley, Bob Deuell and Craig Estes, For the Express-News
Jan. 9, 2021
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick seeks to again to lower the number of Senators needed to bring a bill to the floor for debate to an 18-vote rule.Steve Gonzales /Staff photographer
For 70 years the Texas Senate had a “two-thirds rule” requiring 21 of the 30 senators to vote to bring a bill to the floor for debate.
In 2015, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in a partisan move pushed through a change to lower the requirement to 19 votes. That allowed the chamber’s 20 Republicans to control the flow of legislation and pass a bill without Democratic support.
Commentary: Texas will never forget Genoveva Puga s harrowing path to activism
James C. Harrington, Juanita Valdez-Cox and Rebecca Flores, For the Express-News
Dec. 12, 2020
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Genoveva Puga sobs after locating her son Juan Torrez’s burial site at the pauper’s cemetery in Edinburg. Torrez was killed in 1977 harvesting fruit at the Donna Fruit Co.Courtesy of LUPE /UFWShow MoreShow Less
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Genoveva Puga, second from left, sought justice for the death of her son at the Donna Fruit Co. while harvesting citrus.Courtesy of LUPE /UFWShow MoreShow Less
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Genoveva Puga, center, became a voice for farm workers’ rights after her son Juan Torrez was killed at the Donna Fruit Co. while harvesting citrus.Courtesy of LUPE /UFWShow MoreShow Less
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