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Executive Editor of The Texas Tribune, father, husband, recovering musician

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Joined April 2008

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  1. Analysis: stays firm but won’t raise voice in House | :

  2. That's it. Video of the whole thing will be up in a bit at .

  3. . on UT/TAMU differences in restrictions to campus carry: "I'm for having guns in all locations."

  4. On laws restricting gun sales, etc.: "None of those restrictions appeal to me. If you don't like it, get out of the state."

  5. "I think the gun issue is a mental health issue... mentally healthy people don't go shoot people." She's for unlicensed carry.

  6. On NC bathroom legislation: The only freedom of speech that seems to be limited is cases of religious liberty. She's for NC regs.

  7. Buckingham is for an exception to an abortion ban in cases where mother's life is threatened, but not in cases of rape or incest.

  8. Nice turnout on a rainy am for our convo w/ . Like ? Join us!

  9. . says she wants to end "meddling between doctor & patient"; says abortions are different b/c there's a human life.

  10. Buckingham: "Every health care provider that I know that can retire is retired. Because it's a mess."

  11. Says there's been no doubt that we have to have major changes in our health care; acknowleges that the problem predates Obama.

  12. . says she hopes to cut Medicaid spending with a block grant under a Republican president

  13. Says the state will be "pretty flush" when it comes time to write the next budget in 2017.

  14. Would you cut public or higher ed, health care? "You have to create efficiencies across the system." Wants Medicaid block grants.

  15. . says the state should be spending less. She points to unexpended balances in agency budgets as a place to start.

  16. . says "the vast majority of other states" have some sort of school voucher system. Says she favors vouchers in TX.

  17. . says she's not sure the state should continue to cap the number of charter schools.

  18. She dances on a school choice question, then says "I am for school choice. I think we have school choice now."

  19. She suggests automatically nullifying state mandates for schools if the state doesn't pay for them.

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