Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

What happened on Wall Street? Why is it that every working man and woman in America is now asked to shoulder $2,300 in more taxes? Phil Gramm’s bundles of greed have tainted our financial markets so that the US Government must intervene to give confidence here and around the world—and taxpayers will pony up $700 billion dollars to pay for it.

McCain has been chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, where he claims to have overseen "every part of our economy." He has a long and relevant economic record that begins with the Keating Five scandal of 1989 and extends to this campaign, where his fiscal policies bear the fingerprints of Phil Gramm and Carly Fiorina.

Two studies released Wednesday morning provide further evidence of the toll health care is increasingly placing on working families, even for those who have health insurance. And as employees are paying more medical expenses out of their own pockets, they are having a harder time coming up with the money.

The Texas Education Agency on Tuesday released to the public an early recommendation for the state's new science curriculum that would excise ideas "based upon purported forces outside of nature" from what Texas students are taught in biology classes.

A three-judge panel of the state's 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin last month upheld the constitutionality of the law under which DeLay and two others were indicted. However, the panel ventured into uncharted territory by volunteering that the money-laundering law did not apply to checks.

Three Republican appellate justices who have opened the door to the possible dismissal of criminal charges against Tom DeLay share political donors with a committee formed by the former U.S. House GOP leader, a government watchdog group said Tuesday.

In a letter to the UT chancellor's office, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said the two researchers, both of whom have received federal grants, have failed to report tens of thousands of dollars in income they received from drug companies. The university is required to keep records of such income on file.

Equipo Bowie -- which includes members such as state state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and the Bowie Alumni Association -- will review data in the Bowie High School feeder pattern beginning with children in Head Start programs and continuing through college-age students.

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle on Monday raised the specter of judicial corruption as he pressed the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin to reconsider an opinion in the money-laundering case against two associates of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

With the nation rocked by a financial crisis that grew more intense this week, the Texas jobs machine is likely to continue decelerating, analysts said.

"He was truly larger than life," U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle said Sunday. "From the core, he symbolized civil rights. He knew that fairness took backbone, and that's why he was able to make history."

Today in Texas, the mental health system is in crisis. Over the past weeks, we have demonstrated serious harm inflicted on agency after agency by the Grover Norquist approach to government: cut funding, cut training, cut resources—and then, of course, cut taxes for the wealthy. Who get's hurt are the young, the old, the vulnerable and you!

El Paso's 2.61 percent job growth rate from March 2007 to March 2008 was eighth best among the 200 metro areas. Its five-year job growth was slightly better than the national average.

Using government health data, they found that the 25 percent of people with the highest levels of bisphenol A in their bodies were more than twice as likely to have heart disease and, or diabetes compared to the 25 percent of with the lowest levels.

“We have some critical needs in health and human services,” said Albert Hawkins, executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission. “And we're carrying those priorities forward in our legislative appropriations request.”

At that time the U.S. was producing about 200,000 so-called STEM graduates annually, and the business leaders saw that the number was inadequate if the United States hoped to remain an innovative leader and competitive in key research-based fields.

The Bush administration is asking for another $400 million to complete the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, and even that figure may not get the job done by the end of 2008, according to government investigators.

Comptroller Susan Combs said Wednesday she has ended Texas' contract with Lehman Brothers Inc. to provide marketing and client services to TexPool and TexPool Prime, the state's investment pools for local governments.

Powers described his legislative strategy during a state-of-the-university address that also took stock of UT's achievements and challenges. He spoke from the stage of the B. Iden Payne Theatre on campus two days after the 125th anniversary of the university's opening.

Austin's budget for Washington lobbyists will grow from $75,000 to about $375,000, which officials hope will translate into more federal dollars coming to Austin for transportation, energy efficiency and other programs. City staff is expected to recommend additional lobby firms for the City Council to hire in the next couple of weeks.