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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, right, talks with news reporters during a round table talk in his office at the Texas Capitol, Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Gov. Abbott responds to Uvalde shooting with school safety, police training, special committee

PATRICK SVITEK, Texas Tribune
June 1, 2022
House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, talks to Republican members of the Texas House before the start of the debate of Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act, at the Capitol on May 30, 2021, in Austin, Texas.

Gov. Abbott may block lawmakers’ salaries; Phelan concerned

CASSANDRA POLLOCK, The Texas Tribune
June 1, 2021
The Texas Legislature closed out its regular 140-day session Monday at the Texas Capitol.

Higher ed leaders say UT benefited from Texas’s 86th Legislature

ANH NGUYEN, Staff
June 2, 2019
Jaculyn Zigtema, special education director for Whitehouse ISD, speaks during a Texas Education Agency hearing on special education funding in Richardson on April 16, 2018.

Texas lawmakers increased special education funding this year

ALIYYA SWABY , The Texas Tribune
June 1, 2019
Protesters inside Texas Capitol

Passions run high over Texas ‘sancturary city’ bill (Storify)

Kyle Brown
May 30, 2017
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