Texas GOP Vote

RPT - Today the Texas House passed HB 12, the Sanctuary Cities bill, by a vote of 100-47 on third reading. This bill allows cities and law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws by preventing local policies in conflict with U.S. immigration laws and by establishing uniform, consistent standards for all Texas law enforcement.

RPT - This afternoon, all 19 Republican State Senators stood together in a united front to defeat obstructionist tactics of the Democratic Party and successfully moved forward House Bill 1, pertaining to the 2012-2013 state budget. It was apparent over the last couple of days that Democratic senators were attempting to hold the budget process hostage through the two-thirds rule in order to extort higher spending levels.   Read more »

Republican Party of Texas - During the recent debate on the General Appropriations Act, several Republican Party members successfully defunded Planned Parenthood by $61 Million. These members' actions diverted tax money from abortion procedures and instead funneled the funds to worthwhile programs such as Alternatives to Abortion.   Read more »

Republican Party of Texas - Texas State Senators Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands) and State Representative Burt Solomons (R-Carrollton) have filed companion bills to prohibit sanctuary policies which either directly or indirectly harbor illegal immigrants in Texas Cities. The Senate version of the bill is enumerated SB 11, and the House version is HB 12.   Read more »

Republican Party of Texas - In an important vote for pro-life values, the Republican-controlled Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 16 on Thursday afternoon. The legislation requires that doctors must perform a sonogram at least two hours before an abortion and has additional language instructing doctors to describe the sonogram

The following came in from the Republican Party of Texas:

In a recent news article published at Capitol Inside, a deputy spokesman for the Texas Democratic Party criticized Republican Hispanic members of the Texas Legislature for forming a caucus whose purpose in part, is to address issues important to the Hispanic population of Texas. In the article, TDP spokesman

After November 2008, all sights were set on Hays county which was seen by Democrats as a “swing county”. Well, thankfully things didn’t quite work out as the liberal activits, such as MoveOn.org and Organizing for America, had hoped in Hays County. On November 2010, the tables greatly turned and while the Commissioner’s Court was once 4–1, in favor of Democrats, it is now 4–1, Republican!   Read more »

RPT State Chairman Steve Munisteri announced today that the state party has committed a minimum of $10,000 to the Dan Neil election contest in a show of support for Neil's contest.

"Our office has been in close contact with the Dan Neil legal team led by former Party counsel Donna Davidson. I have reviewed the evidence developed so far and am convinced that there are sufficient irregularities in the vote to warrant an effort by Dan Neil to seek redress with the Texas House of Representatives. The Republican Party of Texas pledges to assist Dan Neil

The following is a statement from Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri regarding the new Republican House members:

November 2nd was a historic day for the Republican Party of Texas as we not only increased the number of Republicans in the State House from 77 to 99, but also added approximately 300 new Republican officeholders statewide.

The following came in from the Republican Party of Texas.

This past Saturday at the December 4th quarterly meeting of the State Republican Executive Committee, State Chairman Steve Munisteri made the exciting announcement that the Republican Party of Texas was completely debt-free as of Wednesday, December 1st. Chairman Munisteri