Now that the Texas Legislature has finished its once-every-two-year job and won't meet again until January 2027 (unless Governor Greg Abbott decides to call a special session), how did it all go?
Among those who appear satisfied with the results include Governor Greg Abbott, who's doing publicity-generating public signings of bills, and some politicians who managed to see their pet legislation make it into law.
Among those who say they're disappointed is Houston-area state Representative Briscoe Cain, who believes the State of Texas should demand more than what their lawmakers delivered this session.
"This is Texas, we should be coming home and bragging about how great it was, and that's not what we get to do, so I'm just going to be honest and say, it was good, but it could have been way better."
Rep. Cain says there were plenty of good things that happened, but an example might be property tax relief. Why not just go a step further and abolish property taxes?
There was an increase in the homestead exemption, but Rep. Cain says, "but the moment you feel it, it's all going to be taken away by the spending of local governments and they're going to tell you that they've made you a little more free, but the amount of spending we've done is just going to continue to enslave you."
"It's easy to just sit here and complain, but it's really just a numbers game. The people of Texas elected 88 Republicans for this session. That's more than we had in past sessions, but we squandered it.
"Now we did do some great things. We became the first state to stop the social transitioning of children at schools," he said.
"There's some awesome things that were done."
Rep. Cain says despite the disappointments with this session, he intends to soldier on and run for office again at the end of this two-year term and would like to hear from his constituents on how the session went and about planning for the future.