Tag Archives: Dennis Bonnen
As Speaker of the House, Will Dennis Bonnen be a Menace to the Environment?
Despite his earlier reputation as a hatchet man for environmental regulation bills, activists are cautiously optimistic that they can find common ground with Bonnen as speaker.
As chair of the Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulation from 2003 to 2008, Representative Dennis Bonnen was labeled a “tyrant,” a “Clean Air Vil...Read More
Empower Texans Flushed Millions Down the Toilet
After a decade spent trying to remake Texas politics, the right-wing enforcement group has achieved nothing interesting or notable with Tim Dunn’s money.
Earlier this decade, there was no more interesting subplot in Texas politics than the Republican Civil War, a somewhat grandiose name for the discomfort the tea...Read More
Bonnen to Patrick: You Shall Not Pass (Property Tax Cuts)
As we enter the final stages of the Legislative session, the House and Senate are battling over two poorly constructed and faulty tax cut packages. Furthering ...Read More
The House and Senate Get Ready to Brawl Over Tax Cuts
The House & Senate have very different plans for tax cuts — and both sides are getting ready for significant policy fight in the closing weeks of the lege...Read More
House OKs Enormous Border Security Bill
After four hours of debate on almost 50 amendments, the House passed, on an initial vote, a comprehensive border security bill by Rep. Dennis Bonnen (R-Angleton...Read More
Sundown on the Sunset Commission? TPPF Floats the Proposal
The panel, "Should Texas Sunset the Sunset Commission?" asked an apparently pressing question on the minds at TPPF, but hardly anybody else's....Read More
Dennis the Menace
Angleton Republican Dennis Bonnen is perhaps the Legislature’s biggest impediment to cleaning up the Texas environment.
Texas leads the country in air pollution, hazardous waste, mercury contamination, carbon dioxide emissions, and any number of other ways you might measure a sic...Read More