Burrows had Obama lawyer write House rules, then pushed rules through without debate or amendment – Pratt on Texas 1/28/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Cartel gunmen opened fire on U.S. officials across the Rio Grande yesterday demonstrating how right is President Trump at naming these groups terrorist organizations. Also, Governor Abbott is deploying “tactical strike teams” to help the feds roundup illegal aliens. It’s just the same thing we’ve been doing but “tactical strike teams” sound good and might net a Fox News interview!

Fun piece about CNN’s coverage of deportations from National Review by Charles C. W. Cooke: Hope This Helps.

Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.

Rep. Dustin Burrows, founding BurrowCrat.

While trying not to do so, BurrowCrat Party founder and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows admitted that his House Rules package he pushed through without debate or amendment, was written by a former Barack Obama White House lawyer!

We also learned that all the stuff about keeping House tradition is a lie from the BurrowCrats as Burrows intends to hold no vote on staff budgets, salaries, and other “housekeeping” matters. Instead, in full dictatorial fashion, he simply plans to fiat such matters. (More.)

Dallas Fed: Growth in Texas service sector activity moderates; retail sales growth “reverses” in January.

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