Earlier this week, Governor Rick Perry likened Texans who might benefit from an expansion of unemployment provisions in the economic recovery plan to drug addicts. (more…)
Although Governor Perry, Senator Hutchison and their fellow Republicans continue their intense partisan attacks against the economic recovery plan, the Governor’s appointees in state agencies and key Republican lawmakers are busily planning to use stimulus funds to erase some of the many failures of Republican rule in Texas – from health care to education funding to highway construction. With as much as $27 billion recovery-dollars at stake for Texas and $17 billion for the state budget alone, Perry continues playing politics with the stimulus plan while looking to his own appointees to clean up his mess. (more…)
Texans have already seen Republican U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison and Republican Congressman Pete Sessions play politics instead of working to develop a bipartisan plan to rescue our economy. (more…)
In response to the most serious economic challenge that has threatened our country since the Great Depression, Congress is prepared to pass an economic recovery plan that could provide Texas as much as $27 billion to invest in infrastructure, create jobs, and pay for the rising cost of health care and a college education. (more…)
Although Senator John Cornyn actually showed up for work today – albeit to vote against the interests of Texas families – last night, he was the only Senator who skipped out on work to hobnob with Wall Street Republicans at a New York reception, choosing to play politics with Texans’ tax dollars. (more…)
While their colleagues in the United States Senate were working out a bipartisan compromise on the federal stimulus bill, Texas Republican Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison refused to put partisan antics aside to provide much-needed relief to Texas families. (more…)
Today, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie announced the addition of Rick Guerrero to the TDP staff as Deputy Communications Director. Rick, who joins the TDP after most recently working for the U.S. House of Representatives, will assist in developing overall message strategy and will also be directing all Hispanic media outreach for the Party. (more…)
While the United States Senate took crucial votes on the stimulus package Friday evening, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was the only Senator who went AWOL, choosing to seek support for her campaign at a Texas speaking engagement instead of fulfilling her responsibilities to work for Texans in the Senate. (more…)
The federal stimulus package currently under consideration in Congress would bring at least $27 billion and as many as 286,000 jobs to Texas [Dallas Morning News, 1/24/09; 2/4/09]. (more…)