Prospect of special session rises as hopes for a budget deal grow dim.
The legislation hit the rocks after a public tirade against a senator by a Fort Worth advocate for the bill.
More than half the Republicans vote against the measure, bucking their party’s platform.
“Everybody, every single American, should be freaking out,” a North East Tarrant Tea Party leader says.
What would William Travis, Sam Houston and Davey Crockett do? They’d join other “God-fearing Texans” in fighting “Obamacare,” a Republican activist declares — in song.
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- Gov. Rick Perry "deeply saddened by the deaths" caused by storms late Wednesday
- Fort Worth council members worry more conflicts will arise in mixed-use zoning between schools and alcohol sales
- Fort Worth on track for summer completion of Forest Park "Road Diet"
- Fort Worth council considering two tax abatements
- Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
- Tea party hero Cuccinelli is Va. GOP gov nominee
- Handel jumps into crowded US Senate race in Ga.
- Despite sequester, high-level federal executives slated to get bonuses
- IRS' Miller's resignation letter
- Hoe, hoe, hoe! Christmas trees are back, in new farm bill
- Multiple controversies suddenly plague Obama
- Military sexual-assault case triggers political furor
- IRS Q&A on the Tax-Exempt organization issue
- In IRS scandal, why is any political group exempt from taxes?
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