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Fed School Funding
News Story January 22, 2010
by Richard Whittaker
Description: Teachers' unions say Race to the Top places too much emphasis on testing
"...However, just as Perry rejected $555 million in unemployment insurance cash but took the other $16 billion on offer, his decision to junk this application does not mean that Texas education gets no economic stimulus cash. AISD has already received $23 million in Title 1 ARRA money for campuses with economically disadvantaged students and $17 million for programs covered by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act..."
HD 48 GOP Primary a Race
News Blog October 19, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: Second Republican planning to challenge Rep. Donna Howard
"...However, hanging around with arch-conservatives like GOPAC-TX chairman Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford (the man that killed unemployment insurance reform for Gov..."
Point Austin: Did You Work Last Weekend?
News Column September 11, 2009
by Michael King
Description: Reflections on the value of Texas labor
"...Download the fourth edition of “Texas on the Brink” and two reports from the Center for Public Policy Priorities: “Poverty 101” and “Labor Day Update: Texas Unemployment Insurance System.”..."
Naked City
News Story July 17, 2009
Description: News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
"...• Perry Borrows From the Feds Remember that $555 million in federal stimulus money for unemployment insurance that Gov. Rick Perry made a big noise about rejecting? Now he's planning to pay Texas' unemployment benefits with an interest-free loan – from the federal government..."
Special Session Is the Only Thing That's Certain
News Story June 19, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: The when and the what are still unknown
"...Lawmakers already have their wish lists; Watson has said he'd like local transportation funding, renewable energy, and children's health insurance on the call. When unemployment insurance compliance legislation failed to make it out of the House, Rep..."
'If We're Back Anyway ...'
News Blog June 17, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: Lawmakers start wondering how much of the special session agenda is a blank slate
"...Speaking of greentechnophiles, Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, said on the floor that he wants unemployment insurance compliance back on the agenda..."
Point Austin: The Capitol Circus Decamps
News Column June 5, 2009
by Michael King
Description: Did we learn anything more than the meaning of 'chub'?
"...Rick Perry is running for re-election. Similarly, the $555 million in federal stimulus funds intended for unemployment insurance foundered on national GOP anti-Obama politics – despite the fact that the glaring secret of the "balanced" state budget Perry celebrated Tuesday is that it was balanced only with the help of more than $12 billion in federal stimulus money...."
See You June 2?
News Blog June 1, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: Spitballing the odds and causes of a special session after the the House midnight meltdown
"...A week ago, Texas House Republicans killed unemployment insurance compliance legislation by the use of fine-tuned timing. At midnight on June 31, Democrats may have used the same tactic to revive CHIP expansion...."
Fruits of Their Labor
News Story May 29, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: How labor-related bills have fared this session
"...Unions are eagerly watching the fate of children's health insurance reform, while retired state employees and teachers are waiting to see whether the House proposal for a one-time payment (known as the 13th check) survives the budget process. With many union members and nonmembers out of work, much attention was fixed on the ultimately unsuccessful push for unemployment insurance reform..."
Chubbing Republicans Over the Head
News Story May 29, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
"...Ultimately the legislative agendas of both parties took a hit: Voter ID never made it to the floor, but neither did unemployment insurance reform. Yet some significant legislation – like top 10% reform – made it through the crush..."
The Chub Returns
News Blog May 26, 2009
by Lee Nichols
Description: Now Republicans hope to kill unemployment insurance reform
"...That's the bill to update Texas' unemployment insurance system, in order to qualify the state for more than half a billion dollars in federal stimulus money. Although Gov..."
No More Chub
News Blog May 26, 2009
by Lee Nichols
Description: Pace picks up in House, but late enough to still kill voter ID
"...“It’s just time to speed up,” told me. “We’re hoping to get to the unemployment insurance bill.”..."
Dunnam on Straus
News Blog May 26, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: After point of order fails, who runs the House: The speaker, or the committee coordinator?
"...He was still optimistic that unemployment insurance reform will still get passed, and that if the governor did call a special session, it would be for something constructive, like windstorm and home owners insurance, and not a divisive partisan issue like voter suppression...."
Straus' Big Test
News Blog May 23, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: House speaker suggests both caucuses tiring of chub and its causes
"...If the House can't get moving not simply voter ID dies. The massive number of amendments hanging over Top 10% and unemployment insurance alone will start burning up the time to the midnight Tuesday deadline for debate – if they ever get to the floor...."
Clearing the Chub?
News Blog May 22, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: Dunnam proposes way to move bills without moving voter ID
"...There are, he argues, no shortage of pressing issues that won't fracture the House and have a good shot at passing. Unemployment insurance compliance and the Top 10% rule are still pending since yesterday and, he added, "We haven't done TDI Sunset in 16 years..."
UI Changes Change and Change Again
News Blog May 21, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: House wrangling over unemployment insurance compliance bill get verified
"...The unemployment insurance compliance terms in Senate Bill 1569 are on the House floor today, and unsurprisingly causing controversy and parliamentary maneuvering. Rep..."
Are Republicans Trying to Kill Voter ID?
News Blog May 6, 2009
by Lee Nichols
Description: "The target keeps moving on me" complains Elections committee chair
"...One possible theory for Republicans killing their own pet bill: Feigned outrage over the lack of a voter ID law makes a much better campaign cudgel for Gov. Perry than his rejection of stimulus money for unemployment insurance...."
Lee & Carole & Brewster & All of Us ...
News Story May 1, 2009
by Wells Dunbar
Description: Five candidates for mayor jockey to be first among equals
A Commonsense Solution to Stupidity
News Story April 24, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: Lawmakers craft a scheme to force Perry to accept federal unemployment-insurance dollars
"...Gov. Rick Perry's refusal to take $555 million in federal unemployment insurance cash has taken a double blow from legislators..."
Point Austin: Astroturf and Grass
News Column April 17, 2009
by Michael King
Description: More than one way to spark a demonstration
"...Rick Perry deliver his ringing denunciation of the federal stimulus money that's about to bail out the state's deficit and (with any luck) keep the staggering state economy from going even further into the tank. While he's defending Texas "sovereignty" under the 10th Amendment, somebody might ask the governor why he's not demanding refusal of all of the $16.9 billion in stimulus funding earmarked for Texas – instead, only that comparatively paltry half-billion in unemployment insurance funds aimed at helping working people (while also delaying a tax triggered on businesses when state funds are exhausted)..."
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