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Tuesday, April 16,2013
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UT Tower bells to
honor marathon
victims
AUSTIN (AP) — The
University of Texas
Tower bells will be played
to honor victims of the
Boston Marathon bomb-
ings.
Junior music major
Austin Ferguson says
he'll perform Tuesday af-
ternoon. The tribute
comes a day after the
bombings in Boston left
at least three people dead
and more than 140 hurt.
Ferguson told the
Austin American-States-
man that selections will
include "Amazing Grace"
and "A Mighty Fortress Is
Our God.”
Ferguson is among the
students who perform
using the set of 56 bells —
formally known as a car-
illion — that make up the
largest musical structure
in Texas.
Dewhurst: Conservatives to make final push
AUSTIN (AP) — Conserva-
tives in the Texas Legislature
will make a final push to pass
contentious abortion, educa-
tion and gun rights bills over
the final six weeks of the ses-
sion, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst
said Monday, renewing his
pledge to make Texas the na-
tion's most socially and fis-
cally conservative state.
In an interview Monday
with The Associated Press, De-
whurst dismissed the idea that
slow action on those issues
and an apparent willingness
by the Republican majority to
spend a large chunk of the
state’s cash reserves — an idea
that Republicans wouldn’t
even consider two years ago —
signaled a wavering of conser-
vative principles since the tu-
multuous and bitter 2011
session.
Dewhurst's message was
simple: The conservatives are
coming and there’s plenty of
time to pass their agenda.
"We are well on our way,”
Dewhurst said, immediately
jumping to the topic of "pro-
tecting the sanctity of life."
Dewhurst, who said
he’s still planning to
run for a fourth term
in 2014, has supported
a measure to ban abor-
tions after 20 weeks
and another pending
in the Senate that
would require abor-
tion providers to have
hospital privileges
within 30 miles of an
abortion facility. Dewhurst
said that Senate Democrats,
who are in the minority in the
chamber but have enough
votes to block bills from com-
ing to the floor are standing in
the way.
"Since 2003,1 have passed all
of our pro-life bills that we
have made a priority," De-
whurst said. "The majority of
the people of the state of
Texas are pro-life and appreci-
ate those efforts."
Dewhurst also said he
wants to keep pushing law-
makers on school choice bills.
He noted that the Senate al-
ready passed a bill allowing
the greatest expansion of
charter schools in nearly 20
years and said the
chamber will likely
pass in the next few
days a bill that gives
parents more power to
shut down failing pub-
lic schools.
Dewhurst suggested
he still may want to
push for a Senate plan
for school vouchers
that would allow par-
ents to use tax money to send
their children to private
schools. An anti-voucher vote
in the House last week sent a
clear message that the cham-
ber was likely to kill any such
plan, but Dewhurst seemed in-
terested in pushing it anyway.
"I’m going to push for as
much choice for parents as we
can get," Dewhurst said. "We
still have a lot to do. ... At the
end of the day, I try to focus on
doing what’s right and not
counting votes in the other
chamber. I don’t want to see
kids caught in failing schools."
Following the December
massacre at a Newtown,
Conn., elementary school, sev-
eral Texas lawmakers pro-
posed measures meant to
allow licensed gun owners to
carry loaded firearms on
school grounds. But none of
those measures have yet
passed in either chamber.
Dewhurst lauded bipartisan
and near unanimous votes last
week to require drug testing
for some applicants for welfare
and unemployment benefits.
On spending, Dewhurst envi-
sions u sing about $2 billion for a
revolving water fund in which
the state loans money and is
paid back. Dewhurst said he
wants to talk more with trans-
portation officials — who have
said they need about $4 billion
more per year—before commit-
ting to what the state should
spend on roads from the Rainy
Day Fund.
That appeared to be a step
back from a Senate Republican
plan unveiled last week that
would dip into the reserves for
as much as $6 billion.
"We need to see what our ul-
timate needs are," Dewhurst
said. "If you don't know where
you are going, any road will
get your there."
Dewhurst
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