Texas Senate skirts tradition, passes budget by party-line vote

AUSTIN — Senate Republicans bulldozed Democrats, and the chamber’s traditions, on Wednesday to advance a $176.5 billion, two-year state budget.
GOP leaders cast themselves as the Legislature’s grown-ups, who had to rein in free-spending Democratic senators before they now try to restrain overzealous House Republicans who would cut too deeply into schools, safety-net programs and prisons.

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