Texas eyes rainy day fund to balance budget and fund needs
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus urged using the Economic Stabilization Fund to cover critical needs amid a drought of revenues. The fund stands near 12 billion, with calls to preserve credit while addressing child welfare, school funding, higher education, and safety-net costs.
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Texas
Joe Straus
Economic Stabilization Fund
San Antonio Republican
Texas Supreme Court
Straus
Lawmakers and Federal Officials Contact List Featured
A long OCR style directory lists U S lawmakers and Texas state officials with office addresses in Midland Odessa Lubbock Austin and Amarillo. It includes contact numbers and email/web links for representatives Conaway Cornyn Cruz Hurd Neugebauer Craddick Landgraf Seliger Uresti and state offices.
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Mike Conaway
Midland
Cannon House
Washington, D.C
Fox
W. Eighth St
Odessa
Desta Drive
Conaway
House
John Cornyn
Hart Senate
Washington
D.C
Cornyn
Senate
Ted Cruz
Dirksen Senate
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William Hurd
Helotes
Hurd
Randy Neugebauer
Lubbock
Randy.house
Tom Craddick
Republican
Capitol
P.O
Austin
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Brooks Landgraf
West 4Th St
Capitol Extension
Brooks.landgraf
House State
Sen
Kel Seliger
Amarillo
Eastridge Road
Senate.state
Opioid deaths threaten efforts in drug war
Stephen Chapman argues in the Chicago Tribune that rising opioid deaths undermine decades of anti narcotic policy. He contends current strategies fail to curb overdoses and calls for reassessment of priorities and interventions.
Sessions calls for tougher drug policing amid opioid crisis
Jeff Sessions urged aggressive policing to curb drug use calling it harmful. He ignored data favoring medical marijuana, noted overdose deaths from heroin and opioids, contrasted with zero marijuana deaths, and criticized treatment expansion while warning that pill mills and fentanyl pose dangers. The piece surveys MAT limits, policy contrasts, and potential harms of criminalization.
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Jama Internal Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Colleen Barry
Trump
U.S
Stanford University Psychiatry
Keith Humphreys
Drug Policy Alliance
United States
DPA
Surgeon General
New York University
Mark A.R. Kleiman
Foreign Affairs
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