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The Texas Senate has been hard at work for several months now, and they've managed to pass a number of top-priority bills. So what about the Texas House? They're being blasted by conservatives and their own members for slow-walking the Republican agenda.
According to State Representative Brian Harrison (R-HD10), the Senate is putting the House to shame. He said, "At least the Texas Senate is working. We are about halfway through the entire session, and the Texas House has not heard a single bill."
Harrison placed the blame for the lack of action in the House on House leadership, including Speaker Dustin Burrows, who he says has allowed Democrats to secure key positions of power in the House. He said, "Democrats chair powerful committees. They chair budget committees. They decide how billions of taxpayer dollars are allocated."
He says those same Democrats have obstructed and then watered down the key bills that make up the Republican agenda, including school choice. He says while the House may pass something claiming to be school choice, he thinks it will fall far short of what voters actually want.
Harrison went on to call this "the worst form of voter fraud." He said, "Texans did the right thing. They went to the ballot box, and they voted for Republicans. But what did those Republicans do when Texans weren't looking? They voted to empower the liberal Democrats, and then they colluded with them."
He is, however, hopeful that now that the RINOs in the Texas House have been exposed, they'll be voted out during the 2026 midterms.