{"id":613,"date":"2003-09-10T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/613.html"},"modified":"2003-09-10T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2003-09-10T18:05:09","slug":"texas-third-special-session-to-begin-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/texas-third-special-session-to-begin-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217; third special session to begin Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has called for a third &#8212; and probably final &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/legislature\/content\/coxnet\/texas\/legislature\/0903\/0910redistrict.html\">special legislative session<\/a> to pass Tom DeLay&#8217;s absurd re-redistricting plan.<\/p>\n<p>All of the Democrats in the Texas Senate who had fled to New Mexico to deny their chamber a quorum indicated that they will attend this session and do their best to defeat it.<\/p>\n<p>However, with Republicans already having announced that they will abandon historical procedures and eliminate a rule that allows one-third of the state Senate to block consideration of legislation, it&#8217;s hard to see how Dems can prevail.<\/p>\n<p>One lingering question is whether the Dems will be forced to pay $627,000 in fines ($57,000 per senator) that the GOP levied against them. Dems maintain that they&#8217;ll never pay a cent, but Republicans maintain that they&#8217;ll punish lawmakers who fail to pony up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has called for a third &#8212; and probably final &#8212; special legislative session to pass Tom DeLay&#8217;s absurd re-redistricting plan. All of the Democrats in the Texas Senate who had fled to New Mexico to deny their chamber a quorum indicated that they will attend this session and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}