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Private decision making by women. and so i think maybe perhaps people viewed it more starkly in that regard. >> we just got news today, governor perry has called another special session for next week to push this bill among a few others. and he said this, i thought this was an interesting sentence in his statement, we will not allow the breakdown of de core um and decency to present us from doing what the people of this state lettered us to do. how do you respond to that? >> i would respond to t...

First by taking an issue that couldnt make it through the regular session where we have a two thirds majority rule in the senate in order to bring a bill up to the floor rule, and instead moving it to a special session where lieutenant governor duhurst made a decision that we would no longer respect that 2/3 decision. that this bill could pass by a simple majority, and what we saw yesterday was injury added to that insult, where senate rules became meaningless, and those who were watching and un...

Senate in order to bring a bill up to the floor rule, and instead moving it to a special session where lieutenant governor duhurst made a decision that we would no longer respect that 2/3 decision. that this bill could pass by a simple majority, and what we saw yesterday was injury added to that insult, where senate rules became meaningless, and those who were watching and understand anything about our rules in texas, understand that the presiding officer, the lieutenant governor used every abil...