Reeve Hamilton

  • Five Days of Chub

    For most of the session, the plotline featured an uncharacteristically demure House carrying out its business—slowly but surely—while the Senate went berserk over what [...] Full Story

  • The Republican from La Mancha

    Like any summer camp or high-school clique worth its salt, the Texas Senate produces a distinctive anthology of inside jokes. Of the many tedium-induced, [...] Full Story

  • Bad Bills

    Squashing Biobug Transparency Senate Bill 2556 Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Southside Place Texas is famous for boots, barbecue, and, more recently, biosafety labs, which research [...] Full Story

  • Understimulated

    Sometimes you can tell a lot from a Web site. After the Feb. 17 passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, [...] Full Story

  • Bad Bills

    THE “I’M NOT THAT UGLY” ACT House Bill 478 Joe Heflin, D-Crosbyton Rep. Joe Heflin is tired of his opponents being mean to him [...] Full Story

  • Be It Hereby Resolved

    When Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson, a Waco Republican, brought House Concurrent Resolution 62 honoring former President George W. Bush to the floor in March, [...] Full Story

  • Bad Bills

    Nuking Democracy House Bill 2721 Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Van One hardship of building potentially hazardous, ecosystem-altering nuclear facilities is that people can sometimes be [...] Full Story

  • Bad Bills

    Trimming the Grassroots Senate Bill 690 Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio Karen Hall’s knees still haven’t recovered from gathering signatures door-to-door for an amendment [...] Full Story

  • Bad Bills

    CROSSING THE LINE House Bill 1893 Rep. Joe Driver, R-Garland Joe Driver, a Republican state representative from Garland and concealed handgun license holder, takes [...] Full Story

  • Bad Bills

    ROUND ‘EM UP House Bills 254 & 261 Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler On Feb. 18, Texas Employers for Immigration Reform held a debate between [...] Full Story