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Today is the final day for the Texas House of Representatives to pass house bills before the end of the session, and with many GOP priorities still stalled, it looks like they might not end up getting passed at all.
This is just another example of how the leadership of the Republican-controlled Texas House has failed to deliver on the promises that they made to their constituents. Now, conservative members of the GOP caucus are calling them out for it.
State Representative David Lowe (R-HD91) said, "Every single failure is not on the Democrats. We've got to stop blaming the Democrats; our party owns them."
Lowe went on to say that the leadership in the Texas House is prioritizing Democrat legislation and ignoring many of the top GOP priorities. He said, "There's a whole bunch of bills—election integrity bills, stopping the sexualization of children bills—and they're just not a priority."
The worst part is, Lowe says this didn’t just happen by accident. Lowe, like many conservatives throughout Texas, says this could be the price that Burrows is paying Democrats after they supported his bid to be the next House speaker.
According to Lowe, "Leadership needed the Democrats to vote for the speaker, and maybe this was part of the deal. But it was completely intentional, and it happens every session."
He also called out the House Democrats for wasting time on the floor with frivolous questions, making it harder to pass bills. He says House Republicans should start trying to pass bills without debating them to get around this roadblock.