This is exactly why the overly long and poorly timed debate over Huffines's Amendment 9 was such a risky gambit.FormerTSgt wrote:This is my fear. I'm worried they made this minor change specifically so it would have to go back to the House so they could either run the clock out or set it up for a filibuster and still try to tell people, "well we tried but it wasn't our fault, blah, blah, blah." Sadly, many people would believe it, too.safety1 wrote:If it does, we stand a real chance of time running out or a filibuster.TXBO wrote:It won't go to conference unless Abbott asked them to change something. He's going to sign an open carry bill.
I hope it all works out.
They should have passed the bill as is, and then debated "upgrades" to it in subsequent legislatures........JUST as was done when CHL was first passed. But NO. A freshman senator's ego had to get in the way.