Tensions mount between Dan Patrick and the Texas House

By Patrick Svitek Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick celebrated a milestone Wednesday: His Senate had acted on all four of Gov. Greg Abbott‘s emergency items with many more days to go in the 85th legislative session. “It’s the earliest ever that anyone knows of that either body … has already passed all the emergency items,” Patrick said in a radio interview. Abbott’s top priorities are “out and done” in the Senate, Patrick boasted — a not-so-subtle contrast with the Texas House, which tackled its first emergency item this week.

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