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Week of August 18-22, 2025
Special session ends; Dems make new demands With a quorum-breaking number of House Democrats still out of state, House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, gaveled the first special session to an end Friday. Gov. Greg Abbott immediately called a second special session that has already convened.House Democrats indicated they will likely return to Texas at some point during the second specia...