The gavel doesn’t drop to open the 2023 Texas legislative session until Jan. 10, but state lawmakers are already giving us an indication of what they will be working on next year.
Updated on July 27, 2021 at 6:03 pm
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There is about a week and a half to go in the Texas legislative special session and most House Democrats are still in Washington after they left the state to avoid voting on a GOP elections bill.
“We are here to press the case in Washington, and we are here to run out the clock on this special session, and we ll deal with whatever comes next down the road,” Rep. Chris Turner (D-Arlington) the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, said.
Three members will testify Thursday in front of a U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee hearing called Democracy in Danger: The Assault on Voting Rights in Texas: Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston), Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) and Rep. Diego Bernal (D-San Antonio).
The hits keep coming this holiday season!
As we near the end of our countdown of the legislative lumps of coal that anti-Second Amendment lawmakers in Texas are leaving in gun owners stockings this year, we want to leave you with a scary thought.
Had gun owners NOT turned out this past election cycle to vote for pro-gun candidates, the sponsors of these terrible bills would have been the ones in charge of YOUR Texas House.
Thank you for the important work you did in the 2020 elections. Now, with the 2021 Texas legislative session just three weeks away, we ask you to support NRA-ILA s efforts to STAND YOUR GROUND on your rights at the Capitol in Austin next year!