...her colleagues attempted to filibuster the bill as the session came to a close, leading Governor Perry to call another special session. This incident is great example to show the Texas politics and government in action through the Formal and Informal power of governor, the roles of the Lieutenant governor and Speaker of the House, role of Grassroots activism and Interest groups, Legislative tactics and rules, and the politics of law making in Texas. The governor has many roles throughout the legislature. The firmest part of a governor’s capacity for leadership involves handling legislature matters. The governor does not have any direct lawmaking authority. However, according to our text, Practicing Texas politics on page 319 it is said, “the legislative power is exercised through four major functions authorized by the Texas Constitution. These four major functions are, Delivering messages to the legislature, signing bills and concurrent resolutions, vetoing bills and concurrent resolutions and calling special sessions of the legislature.” The Texas governor has less formal powers than most other governors. Some Formal powers of the governor include: qualified veto, line item veto, “State of the state” address, appointment powers, call special sessions of legislature, plan powers, budget powers, law enforcement, military powers and clemency. According to thinkprogress.org, governor Rick Perry convened the first special session to give lawmakers more time to consider abortion-related...
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...Phase 3 Individual Project Healthcare Administration/Management Capstone HSS490-1304A-01 Sharon Williams October 26, 2013 Efficiency and Fiscal Integrity in Healthcare Introduction Governor Rick Perry decided not participates in the state based health insurance exchange program. Even thought it has one of the largest numbers of citizens who are uninsured. The exchange will be run by the federal Government to help people obtain insurance. If bought by December 15th, 2013 you will be able to use it as soon as January 1st. If you do not acquire coverage prior to March 31st, 2014, you will not be able to use the exchange till the end of 2014. It also includes that every person that does not have insurance could be charged a fee and could get cost assistance. It all will depend on what you make will be use to see how much of it that the individual has to pay. Perry has led the movement for the not in favor of the Affordable Care Act that will be taking place as the House Republicans state that they will delay government financing sometime this month lest currency will be removed form this program. Number of Republicans has gone as far as to threaten that the country's debts will not be paid unless Obamacare is not postponed and abandon completely. Governor Perry has ordered Rathgeber to make sure Texas navigators have an extra forty hours to go through training, go through a difficult state-administered exam; background checks (Marty Schladen, 2013) and commands...
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... HB 1514, “Relating to privileged parking for veterans of World War II.” (TLO), was first filed as a bill on February 19th, 2013 by Rep. Donna Howard. According to Ms. Howard, “HB 1514 is a way of giving back to those who served to protect our freedom during World War II". This bill was signed by the House with 9 Yeas / 0 Nays and the Senate with 4 Yeas / 0 Nays on May 20th, 2013. I did find some conflicting information the date this bill was actually signed by Governor Perry. TLO notes “June 14, 2013”, while the Governor official website shows he signed the bill on “May, 27th, 2013, Memorial Day”. Ultimately this bill went into effect on September 1st, 2013. I believe this bill shows that we still have the utmost respect for our Men and Women off the past and present armed forces. The fine folks that served in WWII and are still here to share their knowledge and experiences deserve every bit of freedom they can get, especially free parking! Works Cited “Office of the Governor Rick Perry”, Gov. Perry Signs Legislation for Veterans and Surviving Military Spouses, May 27th, 2013, Web, Accessed September 30th, 2014. http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/18573/ “Texas Legislature Online”, Bill History, Stages, Authors, Web, Accessed September 29th, 2014....
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...The governor of Texas is in general the most known state official and usually at the center of state government and politics. As such an important part of the Texas government, the governor has many powers, both formal and informal. The formal powers of the governor are powers inherent to the person who holds the office. These powers include: the power to veto, appointing powers, budgeting powers, and the power to reorganize state agencies and departments. These powers are inherent to the person who holds the position. The power to veto is the governor’s ability to say no to legislation that they disagree with or are opposed to. This power is the most important power that the governor wields that can affect the lawmaking process. There are also several types of vetoes, however the Texas government only has two: the line-item veto, or partial veto, is the ability to nullify or cancel certain parts of a bill; and the package veto, which allows the governor to veto the entire bill. The veto is a very important power of the governor because it allows the governor to have a say in the lawmaking process and because vetoes are rarely overridden, the bill will likely not go through. Besides vetoing power, the governor also has appointing powers. In order for a governor to have influence over legislation, they need to have a say in who is administering the laws. Most appointments are state officials, such as state board members, commissioners, and council members...
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...Evan Stabolitis Professor Max Seymour Political Science 6th April, 2014 Case Cameron Willingham Willingham was immediately prosecuted for arson and the murder of his three little girls to cover up the supposed “abusing” of them. Stacy Kuykendall said there was no way he abused the children and that they were spoiled rotten. Think about it, how could a man abuse two twin one year old little girls and a two year old little girl. According to his wife he was also the best the father she had ever seen and the most loving man she’d ever met. When these things are put together, there is no way he could have done it, there is no reason why. Some of the evidence gathered against Willingham was charcoal starter fluid which was under the grill under the front porch which was melted, but some starter fluid was found inside the door next to the grill. This evidence shouldn’t have held any weight because of the fire hose pressure probably blowing some of the fluid into the house while trying to put the fire out. There was three starting points in the house where an accelerant was supposedly put to start the fire because of the marks of a “fast and hot” start of the fire. Later in the case a fellow inmate of Willingham testified against him saying that Willingham had indeed told him he did start the fire. The inmate that gave this information should have not have been of any importance because him and Willingham had gotten into an argument days before. The inmates background was not...
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...12/16/2012 | | The purpose of this paper is to inform you of a proposal that the Governor of Texas has proposed to the state, on how he feel about the health care reform. I will be talking about how the governor thinks by” issuing top-down mandates on a break-neck timetable is a surefire way to make things worse”. The health care reform legislation currently being considered not only poses a serious threat to patients and providers, but will also cost Texas taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. I will be explaining how the governor feels that President Obama’s plan will cause harm to the health care system,” by increasing taxes and escalate medical price inflation and add more than $285 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years”. “Gov. Perry: Federal Health Care Proposals to Cost Texans Tens of Billions of Dollars Tuesday, August 18, 2009 • Austin, Texas • Press Release Share” “Gov. Rick Perry today emphasized the importance of state developed health care reform rather than the costly, expansive, one-size-fits-all mandates being considered by the federal government. The governor spoke at a press conference announcing the results of a study about federal health care proposals conducted by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF)”. “It’s clear Washington has no interest in allowing states to develop their own tailored solutions to problems that affect their citizens,” “Gov. Perry said”. “Instead we have a federal government bearing down on the states, preparing to...
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...Massachusetts (election of Republican Scott Brown in the Democratic stronghold "liberal" Fire Ted Kennedy). Driven by the growing discontent of the middle classes face the economic crisis, Republicans went on to win the midterm elections of November 2010 , including winning the most seats in the House of Representatives (Condon, 2011) The candidates 1. Mitt Romney, the favorite 2. Ron Paul, the libertarian 3. Newt Gingrich, the ghost 4. Rick Santorum, the last minute guest 5. Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party 6. Rick Perry, the blundering 7. Jon Huntsman ambassador Campaign Among the leading personalities "presidential" of the Republican Party, the names of Mitt Romney, of Mike Huckabee, of Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich are those who face the greatest success in the surveys between 2008 and 2010. It was not until spring 2011 to see the first credible candidates announce their intention to run for the Republican nomination. The first of these is the former governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, known for his veto against decisions of Washington, who announced his candidacy on 21 April 2011. On 11 May following, it is the turn of former MP of Georgia Newt Gingrich , leader of the " Republican Revolution "of the Clinton years, to launch his candidacy. This application is May 13, 2011...
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...visit. Everyone in Texas is nervous about if they are protected by their health insurance company or will their policies be dropped next. The expansion of Medicaid would have created more jobs opportunities across all the parts of Texas. If Texas would have expanded the Medicaid under the Federal Affordable Care Act, the state could have received over four billion dollars of federal Medicaid funds that could have been spent on Texan’s health insurance covered by Medicaid. Everything could have changed for the better. The political implications mean that someone does something that could affect their chances getting back in office after their little stunt. A political implication is when Rick Perry refused to expand the Medicaid program because he wanted to win the primaries in the election. Rick Perry quoted “The real problem is freedom than the Texas’s decision to renew the Medicaid program.” Also he wrote a letter comparing...
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...“1 in 5 crashes involves driver distraction, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.” This problem has recently been knocking at our doorsteps to be addressed and in July of 2017 policy makers and governor Greg Abbott did so. Texting and driving has become an epidemic and is extraordinarily dangerous, one cop says that in some cases he has found it difficult to discern between an intoxicated and a distracted driver while on his patrols. This poses a risk for our children, members of society, and to other drivers, as well as yourself. The law itself, the policy and its makers, and the benefits/hardships that accompany enforcing such a law are all necessary to discuss when formulating an opinion. Use of the cell phone is now prohibited after a new law went...
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...under the rule of the British King and result to that was most states in America had fragile executives so they gave the power to the legislative branch. It’s embedded in the history of Texas where the residents lack faith in the Texas government. But as the years went by, the state grew the power of the governor and gave him/her the extent to do more, but that still didn’t change the fact that they weren’t up to date on “modern Texas” (156-157) Since the early statehood of Texas, it has been governed by a numerous amount of male figures. The state has had around forty-eight governors since the beginning of Texas government, like James Pinkney Henderson as the first governor to the present time of modern Texas, Gregory W. Abbott....
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...Should The United States Have a Flat Tax? The tax code in America is not only very complex, but most people outside of persons who has received specialized training do not understand taxes, forms, deductions, and various other aspects of the tax code. Not only is it hard to understand, but the time it takes to fill out various tax forms, and understanding the forms without the help of a person that knows all of the deductions and loopholes is almost impossible. Some people have taxes that are more complex than others are. Some may have to seek a professional and some may have the luxury of filling out the 1040EZ form, depending on assets, such as owning a business. The whole process of having to file taxes can be very time consuming, stressful, costly, amongst other things. If the United States threw out their current tax code and replaced it with a flat tax for all that would save us time, money, stress, and having to learn a system that does not make sense to those who created it. Everyone including people who works or does not work pays their fair share of instead of just the working class American. Taxes are part of everyday life living in America. There comes the time of year that new years rolls around again after again and getting all of our paper work together including W2s, tax deductions, or 1099s. Gathering all of the paperwork to file taxes is burdensome and creates headaches. For some, it may but not knowing what form to fill out, waiting on all the...
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...punishment has virtually gone in Europe (only Belarus still uses it, most recently in 2010). This year China whittled down its list of crimes punishable by death. Yet for all the apparent momentum, capital punishment remains entrenched in the Middle East and north Africa, and in parts of Asia, notably China. Jacqueline Macalesher of Penal Reform International, a lobby group, thinks the Arab spring could be a new spur to abolition, though she worries that executing political enemies may prove attractive in the short run. The other big exception is America, where two-thirds of states still have the death penalty. A leading Republican candidate for the presidency, Rick Perry, is governor of Texas, the state that uses it most. The state has carried out a record 235 executions in his nearly 11 years as governor. Mr Perry says he loses no sleep over it, and many voters feel the...
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...During an interview before a live audience in the KLRU studio in 2010, Evan Smith, editor of the Texas Tribune, put his chin in his hand and asked Gov. Rick Perry: "Governor, why does Texas continue with abstinence education programs when they don't seem to be working? In fact, we have the third-highest teen pregnancy rate in the country, among all the states." "Abstinence works," Perry replied, his arms folded and resting on the table be-tween them. Smith tried again – the point of the question, he said, was that abstinence education, by the stats, doesn't exactly seem to be working. It does work, Perry replied; it's the "best form ... to teach our children," he said. "Can you give me a statistic suggesting it works?" Smith asked. I Heart Pants abstinence website "I'm sorry, I'm just going to tell you ... from my own personal life, abstinence works," said Perry, increasingly agitated. "If the point is ... we're going to stand up here and say, 'Y'all go have sex and have the whatever is going on ... and here's the ways to have safe sex' – I'm sorry; call me old-fashioned if you want, but that's not what I'm going to stand up in front of the people in the state of Texas and say, 'That's the way we need to go, and forget about abstinence.'" Of course, neither Smith nor anyone else was asking the governor to "forget about abstinence," but the truth, say advocates for adolescent health, including doctors and educators, is that teaching "abstinence only" has not worked to...
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...Emergency Preparedness The world has encountered multiple disasters throughout the past decade. The devastation from tsunamis, mudslides, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, wildfires, super storms, and terroristic attacks impacts the lives of millions, and the affects will be felt for generations. A "disaster is an event that causes a level of destruction, death, or injury that affects the abilities of the community to respond to the incident using available resources" (Nies & McEwen, 2011, p. 562). The state of Texas has experienced severe drought conditions for several years. Severe drought conditions place Texas at high risk for wildfires and flooding. In 2011 Texas experienced the most devastating wildfire season the state has seen in years. The worst wildfire in the state's history "broke out in Bastrop County on Sept. 4, a hot, dry, windy Sunday afternoon. Before firefighters got it contained, the Bastrop County Complex Fire covered some 34,000 acres, claimed two lives and destroyed more than 1,600 homes" (Fountain & Nottingham, 2011, n.p.). Extreme drought conditions placed professional and volunteer firefighters on high alert; as red flag warnings posted, and threats of dangerous fire conditions continued. On Sunday, September 4, around 14:15 in the afternoon, Bastrop County dispatch received a call about a brush fire near U.S. 290 and Texas 21, in the Circle D neighborhood, sparked by what appeared to be a downed power line. By the time Bastrop County...
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...On July 1, a young woman by the name of Kathryn Steinle, was gunned down by an undocumented immigrant. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, was a convicted felon that had been deported five times. Because of San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy, Lopez-Sanchez, was released from jail and was never handed over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which could have prevented a young woman’s death. This tragedy sparked a nationwide controversy on the issue of “Sanctuary Cities”. Immigration rights activists and many Democrats are standing firm that these safe havens, as they call them, for illegal immigrants are a vital part to the community. While others, mostly Republicans, say that there should be no sanctuary for illegals at all. Governor Rick Perry is one of these republicans that is calling for federal funding to be pulled from any city that supports the “Sanctuary City” policy. (Mutnik, 2015, para. 1) Immigration rights activists and some democrats believe that by having these sanctuaries, illegal immigrants will be more willing to cooperate with local authorities because it removes the fear of deportation. (Marcos & Lillis, 2015, para. 8) Even after the death of an innocent young woman, that could have been easily prevented if the laws had been enforced, immigration activists and democrats still stand firm on their beliefs. The only question is, which illegal should these cities actually protect? A single mother that works three jobs just to take care of her children...
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