Texas Legislature adjourns 3rd special session

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Source: AP

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Legislature has adjourned, ending the third special session of the year after passing a major transportation measure.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus declared the session over late Monday after lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment that would boost transportation spending by about $1.2 billion per year. The money would come from oil and gas revenues diverted away from the state's Rainy Day Fund.

Lawmakers agreed to a deal that would put the amendment in front of voters in 2014 and require the Legislature to set a minimum balance for the Rainy Day Fund every two years. Conservatives had hoped to set the minimum balance in the Texas Constitution.

The measure falls short of the $4 billion a year experts say the state needs for roads.

Read more: http://www.kens5.com/home/Texas-Legislature-adjourns-3rd-special-session-218454921.html

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Cross-posted in Texas Group.

[font color=green]Finally, the Lege is through and it doesn't appear like it will reconvene in the foreseeable future. It's time to update my avatar.[/font]

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1. God Help Texas: From the Texas Tribune (August 6, 2013)

Cathie Adams served as chair of the Texas Republican Party for the larger part of a year between 2009 and 2010. Now she's railing against immigration reform, citing her belief that it will lead to an identification system indicative of biblical End Times.

Speaking with Christian radio host Rick Wiles last week in an exchange first captured by Right Wing Watch, Adams decried a biometric scanning proposal present in immigration reform legislation already passed by the Senate, claiming that it would give amnesty to people from Muslim countries who "are not here with the best intentions for America."

When Wiles decried a "biometric scanning" proposal present in the Senate's bill, Adams suggested that such a plan would manifest itself by giving "lost foreigners" the sort of "mark of the beast" cited in End Times prophecies.

"And, of course, we know in biblical prophecy that that is the End Times," Adams said of the initiative. "That is going to be the brand either on our foreheads or on the back of our hands. That is demonic through and through. That is End Times prophecy. There is no question about that."

[BlueManFan]

2. Louie Gohhmert's Smarter Step Sister

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3. Our enemies at work