Weekly Roundup - February 17, 2023

🇺🇸 PRESIDENTS DAY SALE 🦅 Get a subscription to The Texan for only $5/month billed annually—this weekend only: https://thetexan.news/register/?level_id=3&coupon=321328 The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s 30 priorities for the Senate this sessionTwo similar bills to mandate and subsidize the production of dispatchable generationThe 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting suspect pleading guilty to over 90 offensesA bill to create a fund to subsidize water supply for lesser populated areas of TexasThe Texas State Teachers Association promoting a “Week of Action” for Black History MonthThe State of Texas’ challenge to federal “Waters of the United States” regulationsAttorney General Ken Paxton joining a lawsuit against the ATF over pistol bracesThe Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol chief testifying to Congress that the U.S. lacks “capacity” to handle illegal immigrantsThe two Texas Democrats in Congress who opposed allowing noncitizens to vote in local D.C. electionsTexas lawmakers asking Paxton to investigate the City of Dallas over its new abortion resolutionThe Medina County Republican Party censuring a Republican CongressmanThe firing of Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk and his nearly half a million dollar severance packageThe San Antonio City Council using eminent domain to build an expansion of the Alamo Museum