Texas has 19 Republican State Senators and they stand united in telling the State Republican Executive Committee to mind its own business.  The SREC, as it is called, passed a resolution demanding the Senate repeal the so called two-third rule.  This is the rule that requires a two-thirds vote of senators to bring a bill up out of order.  There is nearly always a SB1 that sits in front of other bills requiring the super majority vote to move legislation.  SREC members made plain their annoyance that the overwhelming GOP majority in the Senate was allowing its will to be thwarted by a minority of Democrats. 

The Republicans senators in a letter from last weekend to Republican state chairwoman Tini Benkister was direct in telling the SREC that the Senators would make their own rules thank you very much.  The feeling of many GOP senators has been that without the rule in years gone by the GOP could not have stopped many bills and that those days might come again.  

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