{"id":763,"date":"2009-04-27T14:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2009-04-27T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T19:01:20","slug":"texas-sovereignty-bill-passes-first-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Texas Sovereignty Bill Passes first Hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandoncreighton.com\/hcr50.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Offfice of Rep Creighton<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, HCR 50, a resolution introduced by Representative Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), affirming Texas&#8217; sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution passed out of the House State Affairs Committee with a vote of 10-2-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;Each of us, upon taking office, swore an oath to defend both the Texas and United States Constitutions.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe that my resolution sends a message to Washington that in Texas we intend to do just that.\u00c2\u00a0 For too long, the federal government has superseded it&#8217;s authority and infringed upon rights delegated to the states.\u00c2\u00a0 Elected leaders in Texas have the constitutional authority to determine what is best for our state without interference from Washington.\u00c2\u00a0 We need to stand up for that right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From:The Offfice of Rep Creighton Today, HCR 50, a resolution introduced by Representative Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), affirming Texas&#8217; sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution passed out of the House State Affairs Committee with a vote of 10-2-1. &#8230;&#8221;Each of us, upon taking office, swore an oath to defend both the Texas and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}