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Budget fights and a summer wedding in Texas statehouse
Texas lawmakers clash over the budget with House and Senate differences on employee pay and a looming conference committee. Speaker Gus Mutscher plans to marry Donna Axum, Miss America 1964, in the Capitol. Redistricting faces Supreme Court mandates, possibly prompting a special session. Other action covers obscenity bills, a statewide $9 billion water plan, and a $3 billion revenue bond amendment for August ballots. federal cuts hit vocational rehabilitation funding, offset by agency cooperation.
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Vern Sanford
Texas Press
Austin
Gus Mutscher
Capitol
Mutscher
Donna Axum
Miss Axum
Arkansas
Texas Tech
Lubbock
U. S. Supreme Court
High
Texas
Mouse Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Sen. A. M. Aikin
Paris
House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
James Nugent
Kerrville
Lamoine Holland
San Antonio
Joe Salem
Corpus Christi
Holland
Salem
Nugent
Texas Water Rights Commission
Commission
Rio Grande Valley
Rio Grande
Lower Valley
Peter
Paul
Texas Education Agency
C. G. Fairchild