The HDC is looking to hire a third position in our office — a communications and outreach director. This person will compliment the current Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director, with a major focus on helping with HDC and Member-specific communications needs. A job description with information on how to apply is embedded here. Please …
HDC Hiring New Communications & Outreach Director Read More »
Friday marked the last day for members to file non-local bills this legislative session. As of the close of business Friday, more than 4,600 bills were filed, with House Democrats filing nearly half of all bills. Now, the real challenge begins — getting those bills a committee hearing and onto the House floor for a …
In the House chamber Monday, Texas Rep. Helen Giddings (D-DeSoto) called on the membership to stand with her as she denounced hatred, bigotry and terrorism in the wake of Saturday’s deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Members, this past weekend, we witnessed a white supremacist hate group infiltrate the town of Charlottesville, Virginia, carrying torches on …
Texas Rep. Helen Giddings Denounces Hate, Calls for Moment of Silence in House Chamber Read More »
House and Senate Democrats on Monday unveiled their priorities for the upcoming special legislative session, including some measures that fall in line with the agenda Gov. Greg Abbott laid out in his call and some that depart entirely from it. In a joint press conference, Democratic leaders in both chambers vowed to champion the issues “that matter to all …
Texas Democrats lay out their own special session priorities Read More »
Next time you spend hours in line at a Department of Public Safety office trying to get your license renewed, you’ll have something in common with the legislators and staffers coming back to Austin for a special session later this month. Those lines and this session are both wasteful, senseless situations created by a betrayal …
Special session is sign of state on wrong track: Moody (Op-ed) Read More »
The good news is the Legislature is done, and we finished a two-year budget despite contentious issues like women’s health and so-called “bathroom bills.” The bad news is Gov. Abbott called a special session to address these same issues again. I don’t like to needlessly fight, and you may hear the excitement in my voice …
Israel: Gov. Abbott’s special session is political posturing (Op-ed) Read More »
DALLAS – State Rep. Chris Turner, D-Grand Prairie, said Governor Greg Abbott’s call for a special session next month is a failure of leadership and shows he needs to be more involved in the legislative process. “The reality is this special session announcement is really representative of a failure of leadership on the governor’s part. …
Special session ‘a failure of leadership,’ Rep. Turner says Read More »
“[The Legislature is] the place to put down the guns, unclench the fists and act like decent, full-grown humans willing to solve their differences without violence. And — this is the part that actually makes it work — to abide by the results until the next time to fight, whether that’s in court, at the …
Pardon the disturbance, but we refuse to be silent (Op-ed) Read More »
The meltdown on the final day of the 85th legislative session hardly came as a surprise. This story did not begin that day. It has been smoldering underneath the surface the entire session, with polarization and attacks on motives and character becoming the norm. Candidly, what is muttered away from the microphone is sadly far …
Giddings: We must choose ‘community over chaos’ (Op-ed) Read More »
There’s a tremendous amount of work to do in the last two weeks of session. The budget negotiations, especially in regards to health care cuts that could dramatically exceed what the state suffered from in 2003 and 2011, will be front and center. And of course we’ll all be working to pass our bills through …
Democrats Fighting for Families Amid GOP Dysfunction Read More »
