Bill Text: TX HCR59 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass a budget.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Signed by the Governor [HCR59 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR59-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass a budget.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Signed by the Governor [HCR59 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR59-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bailes (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) | H.C.R. No. 59 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2017; | ||
May 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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WHEREAS, For too long, Congress has proven itself fiscally | ||
irresponsible and has created a crushing national debt through | ||
improvident and imprudent spending; and | ||
WHEREAS, The deleterious effect of this fiscal mismanagement | ||
on our economy and the strength of our nation is ongoing and the | ||
consequences of inaction are severe; and | ||
WHEREAS, Setting a federal budget is an essential aspect of | ||
governing, and Congress must accept its responsibility to regularly | ||
pass a budget bill; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to pass a | ||
budget; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
this resolution be officially entered into the Congressional Record | ||
as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
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