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FrankRep
05-30-2009, 07:45 PM
Affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.


The Bill:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/html/HC00050I.htm

Voting:
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/history.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HCR50


Legislative Session: 81(R) Unofficial
Bill: HCR 50

Disclaimer:This vote has not been certified by the House Journal Clerk. It is provided for informational purposes only. Once the vote is certified, it will be recorded in the journal according to Rule 5 of the House Rules and made available on this web site.

RV# 1544 — Unofficial Totals: 99 Yeas, 36 Nays, 4 Present, not voting

Yeas - Anderson; Aycock; Berman; Bohac; Bonnen; Branch; Brown, B.; Brown, F.; Button; Callegari; Chisum; Christian; Cohen; Cook; Crabb; Craddick; Creighton; Crownover; Darby; Davis, J.; Dunnam; Edwards; Eissler; Elkins; Fletcher; Flynn; Frost; Gallego; Gattis; Geren; Guillen; Gutierrez; Hamilton; Hancock; Hardcastle; Harless; Harper-Brown; Hartnett; Hilderbran; Homer; Hopson; Howard, C.; Hughes; Hunter; Isett; Jackson; Jones; Keffer(C); King, P.; King, S.; King, T.; Kleinschmidt; Kolkhorst; Laubenberg; Legler; Lewis; Lucio; Madden; Maldonado; Martinez; McCall; McReynolds; Merritt; Miklos; Miller, D.; Miller, S.; Moody; Morrison; Oliveira; Orr; Ortiz; Otto; Parker; Patrick; Paxton; Peņa; Phillips; Pickett; Pitts; Quintanilla; Riddle; Rios Ybarra; Ritter; Rose; Sheffield; Shelton; Smith, T.; Smith, W.; Smithee; Solomons; Swinford; Taylor; Thibaut; Truitt; Turner, C.; Vaught; Weber; Woolley; Zerwas

Nays - Allen; Alonzo; Anchia; Burnam; Castro; Chavez; Coleman; Davis, Y.; Deshotel; Dukes; Dutton; Eiland; Farias; Farrar; Flores; Gonzales; Gonzalez Toureilles; Hernandez; Herrero; Hodge; Leibowitz; Mallory Caraway; Marquez; Martinez Fischer; McClendon; Menendez; Naishtat; Olivo; Raymond; Rodriguez; Thompson; Turner, S.; Veasey; Villarreal; Vo; Walle

Present, not voting - Mr. Speaker; Bolton; Howard, D.; Strama

Absent, Excused - Alvarado; Driver; Farabee; Giddings; Kent; Kuempel

Absent, Excused, Committee Meeting - Corte

Absent - England; Heflin; Hochberg; Pierson

Kotin
05-30-2009, 08:38 PM
fuck yeah!!


now to pass the bill that exempts Texas guns from federal law.. and the one allowing concealed carry on campus..

haaaylee
05-30-2009, 08:57 PM
proud to be a Texan!

FSP-Rebel
05-30-2009, 10:38 PM
Good stuff Texas!

Join The Paul Side
05-31-2009, 01:19 AM
Good job Texas. :)

donnay
05-31-2009, 02:02 AM
Way to go Texas!!!

kathy88
05-31-2009, 04:46 AM
We're all going to end up in Texas. Yeah!

CaseyJones
05-31-2009, 04:50 AM
Yee Haw

jsu718
05-31-2009, 05:40 AM
To me, the interesting part of this bill...

"hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States"

That doesn't include all the various additions outside of that like random bills and laws that work outside of the scope of the Constitution. This could open it up for a lot of cases to be determined at a state level that actually would limit the scope of the US Constitution.

james1906
05-31-2009, 08:00 AM
Too bad red light cameras are still allowed in Texas. They're sprouting up like fascist weeds where I'm at.

robertwerden
05-31-2009, 09:12 AM
This is all about Federal abortion law, drug law, gun law and immigration law. When the laws start to change, the demographics of Texas will change as opponents on the losing end pack up and leave and residents who agree pack up and move in.

Should be an interesting event.

HOLLYWOOD
05-31-2009, 09:27 AM
I never understood this nonsense...

I guess it's just too difficult to pick up the phone or send and email to vote Pro Temp or Absentee?

Such a critical state issue and I see this as... not lack of common sense, it sounds more like a political ploy or cowardliness.



Present, not voting - Mr. Speaker; Bolton; Howard, D.; Strama

Absent, Excused - Alvarado; Driver; Farabee; Giddings; Kent; Kuempel

Absent, Excused, Committee Meeting - Corte

Absent - England; Heflin; Hochberg; Pierson __________________

Pepsi
05-31-2009, 03:24 PM
proud to be a Texan!

Watch out for this on Monday

The Trans-Texas corridor rises from the dead. Texas legislature will vote on Monday.

http://www.channelingreality.com/News/texas_legislators_prepared_to_se.htm

http://www.justicemyass.com/index.html

haaaylee
05-31-2009, 03:31 PM
i posted about this on my facebook and this is what my friend, a history teacher, said after thinking it was about seceding:

""Sorry, maybe I got a little ahead of myself ... but when I see words like "Texas" and "State Sovereignty" in the same sentence, I usually know where the conversation is going. So touche.

But ... As for the 10th amendment, it doesn't really say anything that isn't already implied by the entire document. It isn't like some grand new declaration ... more of a bowing to state rights, which is fine. The problem is ... in Article 1 of the constitution, the Federal Government is given all "necessary and proper powers." At the constitutional convention did they mean "NO POWERS THAT ARE NOT EXPLICITLY GRANTED HEREIN." Of course not, if that was what the constitution was supposed to mean, it would have just said that outright. More ink has probably been spilled over "necessary and proper" than over anything else in the constitution.

It is the job, though, of the federal supreme court (not the state) to interpret the constitution. That is explicit in Article 3 I think. At the constitutional convention there were people who wanted to add something saying that the fed only had "expressed powers." But those people didn't have there way. And we have the constitution we have. So it goes

Pepsi
06-01-2009, 04:15 PM
Sovereignty?

IN LATE HOUR OF SESSION, TEXAS LEGISLATORS PUSH TO SELL OUT TAXPAYERS.



Through a convoluted bill, HB 300, the Texas legislature is moving inevitably toward enactment today of a law that will sell out Texans property rights to a foreign corporation.

In hundreds of pages of legislative language, not even printed until early Sunday evening, the legislators are hell bent to sell out the taxpayers.

WHETHER YOU LIVE IN TEXAS OR NOT, YOU CAN STRIKE A BLOW FOR CITIZENS RIGHTS BY CALLING AND OPPOSING HB 300:

CALL Sen. Glen Hegar (who claims to oppose the Trans Texas Corridor toll road sell out, but doesn’t act like it): In Austin 512-463-0118 if you can’t get through his District office is 281-391-9426

Sen.John Carona (who openly supports the sell out): In Austin 512-463-0116 if you can’t get through his district office is 214-378-5739

The members of this legislature went into session well aware of the opposition to the Trans Texas Corridor concept of toll roads. Over six out of every ten voters in the last gubernatorial election opposed the Corridor construction. Key legislators promised to work toward limiting the power of the Texas Transportation Commission and stopping the Corridor development.

They asked for, and got a sunset commission report that scathingly attacked the Commission, the Transportation Department and its planning capacity. But, in the final hours of this session, those same legislators have turned their backs on the citizens and plan to even increase the authority and power of the non-elected Transportation Commission which serves as the puppet for Governor Rick Perry---the Charley McCarthy legislature talking through the mouth of Edgar Bergen Perry. (The analogy will be lost on those of you too young to remember the famous wooden “dummy” used by ventriloquist Edgar Bergen)

They chose to follow the lead of the lobbyists representing the Spanish company, Centra, owned by the royal family of Spain. The Governor, the lobbyists, the huge amounts of money involved proved too much for the citizens to overcome.

A true example of an American patriot, Terri Hall, a San Antonio woman who runs Texans Uniting For Reform and Freedom, devoted hundreds of miles, hours and words to the fight. She was joined by thousands of Texans who voiced their opposition which was already obvious from the last election for governor. The two opponents to Rick Perry collected 61 percent of the vote, and both were opposed to the Corridor plan.

His opponent in the coming election, United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, openly opposes the Corridor concept which would favor toll roads wherever possible, and which would “take” private property in the thousands of acres.

HB 300 not only strengthens the sell-out authority of the government, it also takes aim at eliminating local opposition to the Corridor plan.

Two years ago, small town mayors formed a regional planning commission under section 391 of the Texas Local Government Code. The commission, called the East Central Texas Subregional Planning Commission, was formed by the non-paid mayors of 4 small towns which have a combined population of just 6,000. They were joined by the school districts serving the towns and their surrounding citizens.

Under a Texas statute mandating that the Department of Transportation “coordinate” with this regional planning commission, the group began the coordination process which has been furthered by Stewards of the Range, the American Land Foundation and this blog.

The Trans Texas Corridor I-35 would destroy these towns and school districts. The plan is to route a 1200 foot wide superhighway right of way directly through the towns and districts.

With access limited to every 7 miles, it would require that an emergency medical run from the Holland, Texas hospital to an accident directly across the highway travel 7 miles to an access, then 7 miles back to the accident and then a return over that 14mile trek.

It would require such a re-organization of school bus routes, that a re-division of the districts would be required.

The case has been made to the State and federal agencies, through the coordination process, that these towns and districts would literally be destroyed economically and socially.

The superhighway would also destroy the Black Lands farming area, including the famed BlackLands Prairie. Even the state of Texas has acknowledged that this is some of the most productive, unique farm ground in the world. The state of Texas has called for its preservation in agriculture at virtually any cost. Yet, the Department of Transportation plans to destroy it with a 1200 foot right of way for the superhighway.

Through the coordination process, bringing these problems to the fore and requiring the Department to deal with them, the commission has been able to hold up the submission of a final plan to the Federal Highway Administration for a total of 20 months.

Several weeks ago, the Texas Department announced that it was abandoning the Trans Texas Corridor plan in order to focus on widening already existing interstate routes.

The mayors and districts are aware that this is just a ruse, designed to deceive the public into thinking that the superhighway is dead. The Department has simply been stalling until the legislature came to its rescue at the expense of the people.

Now, today, Texans are on the verge of having their private property rights, their taxation rights, and their voice itself, railroaded by a Texas legislature indifferent to their interests and their rights.

An all out effort has been made by Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, Liberty Matters, the American Land Foundation, and Stewards of the Range to rally the people to make such an outcry that it will cause some cautious legislator to use a technical procedure to kill the bill. It will take a technical “knock out” because the majority of the legislature is clearly on path to stab the people in the back.

I encourage all readers to go to Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom website and review the fight that this group has made for Texans’ rights. Headed by Hall, the organization has exposed corruption within the Texas Department of Transportation and the duplicity of this legislature. She now needs all your help. The Texas legislators should be made aware that all of America is watching this perversion of government.

Ironically, at a late hour on Sunday, it appeared that Senator Carona, an open supporter of the Corridor, would announce an intent to filibuster the bill because one of his pet projects, local impact taxation, has been deleted. Obviously, his position is simply a threat to get his tax provision back in the bill, because he is not going to let the lobbyists down.

His threat, though, shows clearly that this legislature is run by money.

An outpouring of outrage hopefully will be directed today toward a group of legislators determined to undermine their own citizens.


http://www.justicemyass.com/index.html

IPSecure
06-01-2009, 04:34 PM
I never understood this nonsense...

I guess it's just too difficult to pick up the phone or send and email to vote Pro Temp or Absentee?

Such a critical state issue and I see this as... not lack of common sense, it sounds more like a political ploy or cowardliness.

Political Ploy? It Is All About Integrity....

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Dr.3D
06-01-2009, 04:40 PM
Political Ploy? It Is All About Integrity....

[/URL][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG6X-xtVask"]YouTube - Texas Legislation (http://www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeG6X-xtVask)

Looks like each voting location should have it's own key and when the person with the key isn't there, the unit shouldn't work.

Standing Like A Rock
06-01-2009, 07:22 PM
I want to see these states who (rightfully) claim sovereignty fly their state flags above the U.S. flag on their state buildings.

Pepsi
06-01-2009, 07:31 PM
Another bill you should watch out for in Texas.

Texas Senate Endorses Freeway Spy Cameras ..

The Texas state Senate voted Monday to give federal, state and local authorities the ability to track and identify every passing vehicle on state highways. The provision calling for “automatic license plate identification cameras” was slipped into the Senate version of the must-pass Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) reauthorization bill. The provision was not part of the bill introduced in the state House of Representatives, whose less sympathetic members will have to accept or reject the entire 1274-page compromise hammered out by a conference committee. The House voted yesterday to instruct its conferees to insist that the House-passed ban on red light cameras remain in the final text.

The Senate’s surveillance camera proposal promises taxpayer funds to the same private companies that operate photo radar and red light camera systems threatened by the House bill. License plate readers use the same basic technology as automated ticketing machines. Instead of tracking, for example, only those who exceed a certain speed threshold, the plate readers will store a video image of the front passenger compartment and rear license plate of every single passing vehicle. Optical character recognition software identifies the registered vehicle owner and allows for easy indexing of the time and location of travel for each person identified using the highway.

http://www.infowars.com/texas-senate-endorses-freeway-spy-cameras/

haaaylee
06-01-2009, 08:36 PM
Another bill you should watch out for in Texas.


In response to your HB 300 post, here is an email i just recieved from those fighting the good fight in regards to HB 300:


"WE DID IT!
HB 300 IS DEAD!

It was messy, and full of drama, but the grassroots, with the help of infighting among lawmakers over the "local option" gas tax hike, managed to slay a beast of a bill that would have unleashed horrific provisions upon Texans for GENERATIONS to come.

Thank you for all the phone calls and emails to your legislators, and for your support and sacrifices to come to Austin to give testimony to these committees and hung in there when it felt like they weren't listening and would NEVER do right by the PEOPLE of this great State.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for sticking with us through these 5 months of hard-fought battles during the session and for many of us, years of uphill struggles to bring accountability and fix transportation policies that are outright rip-offs. Without this grassroots army, the train wreck would have continued unabated with untold damage.

Play by play...
The final version of the bill from conference committee wasn't even posted until 11:40 PM Saturday night. We had 24 hours to read a 1,000 page bill....IMPOSSIBLE! I was able to get a side by side report of the actual, final changes in text (that report was 178 pages!) and managed to inform lawmakers of the horrible provisions still left in HB 300 to give us ammo to KILL HB 300. Read them here.

We put out a call for supporters to meet us at the Capitol yesterday for a last push to prevent lawmakers from selling off Texas highways to foreign corporations and KILL HB 300. When we arrived, word got out that Senator John Carona announced he was going to filibuster HB 300 because his "local option" 10 cent gas tax hike was taken out of the bill.

Support in the House started to waiver as it appeared HB 300 was going down in the Senate. The House bill wasn't eligible for a vote until 11:40 PM, just 20 minutes before the clock ran out. If they couldn't pass it, they still had to pass the safety net bill before the stroke of midnight. It was going to be tricky!

An added wrinkle...
We found out about some chicanery with the safety net bill (after hearing we were trying to kill the sunset bill and push TxDOT's sunset to next session). HB 300 author Carl Isett magically changed TxDOT's sunset date in the safety net bill to 4 years instead of the 2 years as it was originally written. Apparently this was a move to force lawmakers to choke down his anti-taxpayer, anti-reform HB 300 under the guise that it was better than nothing. But rather it smacked of dirty politics to try and say, "you take our bill or get no change at TxDOT for 4 years."

After we made the rounds and staffers were tight-lipped about their reps position for or against the bill, Rep. Vicki Truitt threatened to filibuster HB 300 in the House (following Carona's footsteps, she wanted the 10 cent gas tax hike and was willing to KILL the bill over it).

Then, House Transportation Chairman Joe Pickett at one point threatened to "release the conferees" and call up the senate bill for a vote instead of the House bill hoping to vote it down handily to send a message to the Senate that the House didn't want their bill. School children behave better than these people. The Senate version was chalk full of the WORST provisions imaginable (worst case scenario), including the 10 cent gas tax hike. So I didn't find the move particularly funny. It was an awful scare until I figured out what Pickett was doing.

By the time the dust settled, it was 11:40 PM and they never called up HB 300 (already declaring it DEAD, for all the wrong reasons, but dead nonetheless) and went straight to the safety bill. Now the safety net bill, having been hijacked and no way to change it since all the final version of bills had to have been filed by midnight Saturday, needed to DIE. We couldn't let TxDOT off the hook for another 4 years. But if the safety net bill didn't pass, TxDOT would be dissolved (many would cheer such a scenario, but not lawmakers who live and die by getting road projects built for their districts).

So Rep., David Leibowitz led the charge and stalled passage of the bill and midnight came and went and NO HB 300 and NO safety bill passed.

TxDOT ABOLISHED (for a few hours)
For about 16 hours, TxDOT was officially ABOLISHED! Oh, I slept well last night...

Today, the House was only to do technical changes (like remove conflicts within bills, mismarked section numbers and the like), but they AGAIN broke their own rules and managed to extend TxDOT for another 2 years (which was the original plan, just a lot more messy!) through a resolution. Lawmakers would do anything to avoid a special session, so they snuck the continuation of TxDOT into a resolution on stimulus funds (and where to deposit them).

The House officially adjourned, sine die only moments ago. While we didn't reform the agency and get the GOOD provisions passed, we averted diaster and CDAs, that sell our highways to foreign companies, sunset August 31. If CDAs die, TTC-35 dies with it. The TTC-69 was excepted OUT of the moratorium bill last session (which we vehemently opposed), so CDA contracts for that corridor can continue until 2011.

The local government 391 commissions we've been forming all over the state will now be the only thing (aside from litigation) standing between East Texas and a possible 1,200 foot wide Trans Texas Corridor!

CDAs may have been snuck into another bill somewhere...
With the "chubbing" over Voter ID, many bills died in the House. So the Senate started attaching their bills to House bills and there were a flurry of conference committee rpeorts filed at midnight Saturday with no way to read them all to see if CDAs got snuck into a bill. Considering the House arrived at sine die before the senate today, and since both chambers routinely suspend their own rules, the Senate may have slipped CDAs into a bill today AFTER knwoing for certain that CDAs will sunset this summer absent the passage of HB 300.

What's also uncertain is what happens to the bills that gave RMAs the authority to enter into CDAs if CDAs are goign to sunset? Which law will atke precedence over the other? So there are many open questions and diasater may be lurking around the corner. But for today, we can enjoy a BIG VICTORY #2! "

Join The Paul Side
06-02-2009, 11:59 AM
Good job! :D