Liveblogging: House Sunday

Man, I go out of town for a couple of days and all hell breaks out. The parlimentarians resign and Terry Keel and Ron Wilson are hired in their place. It’s like a revolution.

2:40 Moreno just lectured Craddick on his rulings.

2:43: Stramma asking questions of Craddick. Craddick sounds like a corpse as he speaks.

2:44 Craddick is repeating verbatim exactly What Terry Keel and Won Wilson whisper in his ear. Terry Keel, btw is presently representing Rep. Harold Dutton in his DWI case.

2:46: Craddick says he is not required to recognize anyone for a parlimentary inquiry and that he is not required to essentially recognize anyone for anything. He sounds sooooo defeated.

2:47: Keel is literally feeding Craddick each and every single word that he is saying. This is historic. It’s amazing. I cannot believe I’m sitting here watching this.

2:50: Craddick tells Strama to sit down and put questions in the journal, then allows him one more parlimentary inq.

2:50: Rep. Leibowitz asks questions about a potential motion to vacate to insure that everyone is on the same page. Is continually refered to journal entry. Says it’s not there. Continues with parliamentary inquiries.

2:56: Hartnett is reading from Precedents of the House of Representatives. Concerning Speaker declining to recognize motions.

2:57: Zedler asks if there is a deadline and can we get on to the people’s business instead of some people’s “personal business.” He is cheered by a very few members.

2:58: Harper Brown does similar to Zedler.

3:03 Speaker Pro Tem is in the chair (Turner), just sustained a point of order for Dunnam from yesterday. Now King is up on a point of personal privilege.

3:15: Perry sends a message to say he’s rejecting a concurrent resolution by Bonnen to declare something as the official amphibian of Texas. How stupid.

3:16: Coleman is asking if the Senate can reconsider HB 486. Asks if it is possible for conference committee on 482 to go back through and write a new conference report, suspend rules, and pass it. Senate can discharge its conferees and concur.

3:18 p.m.: Strama making a point of personal privilege.

“I haven’t slept in two nights and it is not over the question of whether we should vacate the chair, but because we have passed a new rule that says the power of the speaker is absolute… That, I believe, turns this entire rule book into something that is totally recyclable.”

3:25: Strama’s spech was great. Can’t wait until it is transcribed.

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