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22 Feb 2013, 11:56 pm
The bill would have prohibited texting in driving throughout the State of Texas, but Governor Rick Perry, citing that the states should not micromanage people's behavior, vetoed the bill. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
It becomes a matter of determining how and why Rick Perry came to the very erroneous double conclusion that the Internal Revenue Code fills 72,000 pages and contains 3,000,000 words. [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 4:06 am by David J. DePaolo
Rick Perry soliciting California businesses to check out Texas for either relocation or expansion. [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 10:47 am by Paul Caron
Rick Perry Launches Ads to Lure California bBusinesses National Review, California’s Tax Man Cometh New York Times, Two-Tax Rise Tests Wealthy in California (Hat Tip: Mike Talbert.) [read post]
2 Feb 2013, 9:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry may have said "no" to Medicaid expansion, but given the economics of the situation, I'll bet Republican legislators all over the state have faced local meetings like the one described in the Waco Tribune-Herald evincing the Legislature's "division with local government leaders" on whether to expand Medicaid. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 1:46 pm by Lebowitz & Mzhen
HB 274, titled “An act relating to the reform of certain remedies and procedures in civil actions and family law matters,” was signed into law by Texas Governor Rick Perry on May 30, 2011. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 6:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A press conference at the Texas Legislature yesterday touted a bills banning texting while driving, even though Governor Rick Perry vetoed such legislation last session. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 6:44 am by Cormac Early
Perry (the challenge to California’s Proposition 8), and United States v. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 7:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And at some point, the public surely will begin to recognize the disconnect between portrayals of chaos on the border by the Rick Perrys, Todd Staples and Barry McCaffreys of the world and the reality that the Texas side of the border remains among the safest places in the state. [read post]
21 Jan 2013, 9:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
.), and 2) Governor Rick Perry already vetoed legislation to allow bail for parole violators six years ago, so as long as he's Governor, he's the main person that needs convincing. [read post]
21 Jan 2013, 6:49 am by Jeff Gamso
  But if graced with a similarly poetic and allusive turn, Stalin could as readily have said it, or Hitler, or Rick Perry. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 7:04 am by Susan I. Nelson
Nelson: The Texas DREAM Act was signed into law by Governor Rick Perry in 2001 and provides that all students, regardless of immigration status, may qualify for in-state tuition at Texas colleges or universities provided they have lived in Texas the three years leading up to high school graduation and resided in Texas the year prior to their enrollment in higher education. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 11:39 am by Barry Barnett
Perry on President Obama's Executive Actions, Jan. 17, 2013. [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 10:34 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
Governor Rick Perry said that Texas won’t expand Medicaid to implement the health care reform law or set up a state insurance exchange. [read post]
4 Jan 2013, 10:36 am by Matt Johnston
 As Rick Moran noted: The best that can be said is that the jobs outlook isn't getting any worse. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 9:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Indeed, a state official (think of Rick Perry) might quite explicitly say that he is not willing to subordinate his loyalty to the state constitution to the national Constitution, either on (reasonable) grounds that the Constitution is radically defective (which it is) or less reasonable grounds that he is no longer sure he wants to affirm the very notion of Union that the Constitution instantiates. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 4:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry had deemed emergency legislation, died in a late-night committee hearing as Republicans watched evangelical and big business leaders line up with Democrats to defeat the bill.By comparison, this year hardly any similar bills have been filed so far. [read post]
24 Dec 2012, 5:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry made Steve McCraw the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety in 2009, only a dozen DPS employees earned $100,000 a year or more at the notoriously tight-fisted agency.Now there are 73, reflecting an enormous growth in DPS management positions and pay since McCraw, an ex-FBI agent who formerly led the governor’s Homeland Security office, took charge of the department in August 2009.Meanwhile, the more than 3,500 officers at the largest statewide law… [read post]