Thoughts on the 2021 Texas Legislative Session
Welcome to the Texas Legislature 2021. What an opportunity to counter the Washington narrative and carry out the people’s business with calm, dignity and wisdom. My hope is that partisanship, incivility, and flagrant dishonesty, all of which we see across the aisle both ways in Washington, D.C., will be resoundingly rejected by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, both. And we got a gift to start 2021, as the deficit in the next biennial budget is projected to be far less than originally feared during the worst part of the pandemically induced economic downturn. Meeting budget priorities and living within our