Eighteen

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In the Texas Senate, the bar for bringing a bill up was lowered twice under Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R), the second time by exactly the eighteen votes the new bar now asks for; this episode follows that rule to the voucher bill, which came up with twenty votes when the old rule asked for twenty-one, then to the library bill SB 13, which cleared even the old bar and which Rep. Vikki Goodwin (D) voted against twice.

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Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 2:36 The Mechanism 6:22 The Despin 8:58 The Books 11:45 The Steelman Corner 13:46 The Numbers

Short cuts

part · 163s

No bill, joint resolution, or resolution affecting state policy...

part · 131s

Receipts first. SR 39, Section 5.

part · 118s

The minority wrote its objections into the permanent record.

part · 168s

Swiftly. Sails.

part · 170s

One ladder, thirty-one senators, and every rung is the count.

aspire · 30s

You have given us a mandate...

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