‘This is Gov. Rick Perry. I’m sorry I missed you.’
As lawmakers who support accepting $555 million in jobless funds work to figure out a way around Gov. Rick Perry’s opposition, the GOP governor is giving no ground. He recorded phone messages to...
View ArticleSpeaker Straus on taxes and the ‘magic’ stimulus package
House Speaker Joe Straus sat down with Michael Quinn Sullivan of Empower Texans to talk about taxes and the effect of the stimulus package on the state budget. While the federal money has eased...
View ArticleOgden: Stimulus money will boost programs while saving rainy day fund
Senate Finance Chairman Steve Ogden says the state can boost services by at least another $5.4 billion in the next two-year budget period without relying on its rainy day fund, thanks to federal...
View ArticleGoing for the unemployment stimulus money
Lawmakers are making their move to try to get around Gov. Rick Perry’s refusal of more than half a billion dollars in stimulus money. The Senate Economic Development Committee voted 4-0 for a...
View ArticleSenate supports bill to accept federal stimulus for unemplyed
The Texas Senate tentatively approved Sen. Kevin Eltife’s bill to change the state’s unemployment laws so that Texas can accept an estimated $555 million in federal stimulus dollars. Gov. Rick Perry...
View ArticleSenate rebuffs governor on federal stimulus money
The Senate today passed a bill that would allow Texas to accept $555 million in federal stimulus money for expanded unemployment benefits. The vote was 19-11 to send the bill to the House. Sen. Kevin...
View ArticleGov. Perry STILL doesn’t like bill to bring $555 million to Texas
He still doesn’t like it, but he won’t say if he’ll veto it. A proposal to expand unemployment benefits will “hammer” businesses and cost jobs, Gov. Rick Perry said today. But he wouldn’t say if he’ll...
View ArticleGuess what the stimulus money is NOT funding?
Remember the stimulus money that was going to fund Gov. Rick Perry’s pet programs in the budget agreed on by House-Senate negotiators — despite Perry’s criticism of what he describes as big-spending...
View ArticleTEA says that two Houston-area ISDs over-reported stimulus jobs
The Texas Education Agency recently completed its audit of Alvin and Pasadena ISDs, finding that both over-reported the amount of jobs created or saved by the federal stimulus bill, which is known as...
View ArticlePauken on Perry: Sound bites, not sound policy
Former state GOP chairman Tom Pauken, who says he’s running for governor regardless of which giant he’ll be taking on, spoke more bluntly Friday about a conflict with Gov. Rick Perry over stimulus...
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