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Associated Press
AUSTIN — Bay shrimpers, who
had slept on the floor and in chairs
at the Capitol, applauded a weary
senator Tuesday after he broke off a
20-hour filibuster against a bill that
would regulate Texas’ shrimp and
oyster fishing industry.
Sen. Carlos Truan’s 19-hour, 52-
minute filibuster, which began at
9:52 a.m. Monday and ended at 5:44
a.m., was marred by a scuffle be
tween two other senators.
After Truan sat down, the Senate
approved a bill that would give the
state Parks and Wildlife Department
regulatory authority over Texas’
multi-billion dollar shrimp and
oyster fishing industry.
Truan pressed home his concern
I ; that the bill would give the larger-
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alV iviau | Opponents also said the Parks and
Wildlife Department was neutral
and did not want to regulate the
, shrimp and oyster industry.
“People will wake up when the
price of shrimp goes up,” said
Truan, a 49-year-old lawmaker who
attempted the filibuster, although he
suffered a heart attack in 1979.
“Make no mistake about it,”
Truan said, “this bill is special-inter
est legislation pushed by gulf
shrimpers to eliminate competition
in the bays.”
But the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Tati
Santiesteban, D-El Paso, said:
“I don’t know any part of this bill
that will put anybody out of work.”
Truan said the Santiesteban bill
was “conceived in the dark corner of
a lobbyist’s office,” and he added,
“It’s the big guy wanting to kick the
little guy out of business.”
Santiesteban said, “I’m a lot of
things, but I’m not dishonest.”
An angry scene just before mid
night momentarily eclipsed Truan
as Sens. Carl Parker and Hugh
Parmer exchanged barbs and came
close to fist fighting.
Parker, D-Port Arthur, was talk
ing against Santiesteban’s bill when
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were pending.
“Parmer, you’re going to keep it
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elected to a job two terms,” Parker
said.
Parmer, former Fort Worth
mayor, responded:
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Parker has been indicted in Jef
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Parmer pursued what amend
ment was pending, and Parker said:
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about your smart remarks.”
The two senators walked into a
hallway near the members’ lounge.
Reporters in the hallway saw Santies
teban standing between the two sen
ators as if to keep them separated.
Help soon arrived, and the two sen
ators were led back out to the floor
where Parmer apologized.
White backing
parent group
on reform bill
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White as
sured a parent group Tuesday that
he will block any legislative effort to
stray from the public school reform
bill approved last year and under at
tack this year.
The governor spoke to Parents
for House Bill 72, a group that backs
the education changes included in
that bill.
“We oppose any bills intended to
amend House Bill 72,” the group
said in a letter to White, Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby, Speaker Gib Lewis and law
makers.
White told the group to “never let
up” in working for better schools.
The Senate has approved a bill
aimed at cleaning up, but not weak
ening, the reform measure Ap
proved last summer. The cleanup
bill is sponsored by Sen. Carl Parker,
D-Port Arthur, who is also author of
the reform bill.
The House is working on a series
of cleanup bills. Lewis has said he
prefers to deal with each problem in
a separate bill, but he said Tuesday
that the House might have to accept
the Parker omnibus bill.
“I don’t think it’s that harmful,”
he said. “I don’t think it deviates
away from the true intent or dam
ages HB72 to any great degree.”
Lewis added tnat Parker has given
him “pretty good assurances” that
Parker would fight weakening
amendments added by the House.
Efforts have been made to change
several major portions of HB72, in
cluding the no-pass, no-play provi
sion and the required competency
tests for teachers. So far, neither ef
fort has succeeded, although the
Senate bill asks the State Board of
Education to review the no-pass, no
play provision that bars failing stu
dents from extracurricular activities.
White said statistics show that the
failure rate in schools has not in
creased, even though the passing
grade is now higher.
“We are seeing a strengthening of
programs,” White said. “We are see
ing people say this is for real, this is
serious, it’s going to require harder
work and I think you will find they’ll
do better.”
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