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As I understand it, since SB 730 and SB 1164 did not get a second reading on the House floor by midnight Tuesday, they are dead. This was not all the Dem's fault. If certain Republican committee chairs had not held this legislation up in committee, this legislation would have been a done deal well b...

SB 730 is now on the bottom of page 28 of 32 of today's Supplemental House Calendar.

McCall said he was shocked by the chubbing (the House's version of a filibuster) since he spent all session working with Democrats to get their bills to the floor for debate. "I'm frustrated," he said. "We're all frustrated." To bad he wasn't as interested in getting our bills t...

The fax sent to Rep. McCall early this AM: J R xxxx Xxxxxxx Arlington, TX xxxxx May 22, 2009 Representative Brian McCall Chair, House Committee on Calendars I am writing today concerning SB 730, a bill relating to an employee's transportation and storage of certain firearms or ammunition while on ce...

This is way cool. HB 1020 passed third reading 31-0.

Call and fax Joe Strauss, Speaker of the House also.

As the ranking R, and the one who staffed the committees, he has some obligation to see this bill through.

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Now it is time to contact your rep (again) and ask that they support this bill. Faxes and emails over the weekend, calls Monday morning. Let them know that we are paying attention.

It's probably not a bad idea to call Speaker of the House, Joe Straus, and ask him to exert his influence as Speaker to get this bill through Calendars.

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The text to the bill has finally been posted. You can read it here.

For tracking purposes, the bill is S. 843, "A bill to establish background check procedures for gun shows."

It has 11 cosponsors as introduced. The text of the bill has not yet been posted.

Senator Frank Lautenberg has introduced the "Gun Show Background Check Act of 2009".

Thomas does not have it listed yet, but from the presser it sounds as bad as can be expected.

The Committee Substitute is still not posted.

Now that I have mentioned that, they should post it just to prove me wrong.

The TSRA Legislative Alert announces that HB 1893 made it through the Public Safety Committee: TSRA members, family and friends, you made it happen! On Wednesday afternoon, April 8th, the House Committee on Public Safety voted out HB 1893, TSRA-backed legislation sponsored by Rep. Joe Driver (R) Gar...

Which Senator did not vote?

eta: Dewhurst was not present for the morning roll call so I will assume he was not there for the vote.

It is interesting that Yvonne Davis did not file her "One Gun a Month" bill or her "Gun Show Loophole" bill. Does that mean she has decided that exercises in futility are indeed futile? Or has she decided that this type of legislation will get more traction on the federal level? ...