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demonstrate how to make beef jerky. Plumlee said there are a total of eight instructors for the kindergarten through 8th grade group and three aides. For the preschool children, Beth
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Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) speaks at an pro-choice rally in Austin, Texas, Monday. ture is poised to finish its history-making work this year by passing legislation to protect the unborn and women’s health,” Perry said Mon-
supporters of the bill wore blue and recited the Lord’s Prayer. The legislative process now starts over, with lawmakers filing
“ We know where the votes are. We
also know what the calendar is. We know how difficult that calendar can be when it’s working against you. If they win this battle ... I believe we will win the war. — Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin
day in a statement. Democrats can do little to stop the bill this time, only slow it down with parliamentary procedure. A late start gave Davis a chance to filibuster the bill on the last day of the session, but with 30 days in the new one, a repeat seems nearly impossible. “We know where the votes are. We also know what the calendar is. We know how difficult that calendar can be when it’s working against you,” said Austin Democratic Sen. Kirk Watson, suggesting the bill will likely end up in court. “If they win this battle ... I believe we will win the war.” Davis, whose filibuster helped catapult her into the national spotlight, told a crowd of some 5,000 opponents in orange T-shirts that their support helped her maintain the effort. “You were at the crux of a turning point in Texas history,” Davis said. Although far outnumbered, a few hundred
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — State troopers lined the halls of the Texas Capitol, and 5,000 protesters rallied outside against proposed abortion legislation, as lawmakers convened Monday for a second special session that Republican leaders pledged wouldn’t descend into chaos like the first. The Texas House and Senate each met for less than an hour before recessing for the week. That was just long enough to schedule new committee hearings for the proposed restrictions that would make Texas one of the toughest places in the nation for women to get abortions. Less than one week earlier, Democrats scored a rare victory in the GOP-dominated Legislature by running out the clock on the first special session. Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth was on her feet for more than 12 hours — speaking most of that time — during the Democratic filibuster. When Republicans used parliamentary technicalities to silence her, hundreds of protesters in the public gallery and surrounding Capitol corridors cheered so loudly that work on the bill couldn’t be completed before the midnight deadline. “You’re going to see a completely different debate this time around,” said Rep. Steve Toth, a Republican from The Woodlands. “We’re not under that kind of timeline this time around.” Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst took no chances with raucous protesters in the second special session on Monday. Security was much tighter than before, with troopers — some of them in riot gear — throughout the Capitol complex. There were no arrests or any incidents of violence reported. And Dewhurst said the Senate would make one major procedural change as well. Rather than follow tradition and require a two-thirds vote to bring up a bill for consideration, he said it would take only a simple majority during this session. That could prove critical because Democrats hold 12 out of 31 seats and successfully blocked the abortion law during the regular legislative session. On the House side, State Affairs Chairman Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, said he would only allow less than nine hours of public testimony on the bill. Public protests erupted two weeks ago when he cut off testimony during the last session after 12 hours and denied more than 260 women the chance to speak. “A wise man once said, nothing good happens after midnight,” Cook said, explaining why he was limiting testimony. Although there would be no action on either floor during the Fourth of July week, committees were set to hold public hearings to consider the measure. Cook said his committee could approve the bill early Wednesday morning. The soonest the bill could pass the full Legislature is July 10, unless the Republican majorities suspend the rules to move it sooner. Gov. Rick Perry could sign the bill into law almost immediately. “The Texas Legisla-
bills, committees holding public hearings on each, then passing them to both full chambers to consider. That means reviving the proposals Davis and the protesters killed: banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, requiring that the procedure be performed
at ambulatory surgical centers, and mandating that doctors who perform abortions obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. Only five out of 42 clinics qualify as ambulatory surgical centers and they are located only in major metropolitan areas. Dewhurst has acknowledged that the ultimate goal is to shutter abortion clinics. Lainie Duro sat on the Capitol floor at 8 a.m. Monday with a stack of feminist literature and sex education books. “I’m always part of the unruly mob. We refuse to be ruled,” she said. “Poor women, women of color, rural women. If they need abortion they will not be able to get an abortion. Health care in Texas is already difficult for people in poverty to access.”
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Wheat harvest 57% done WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The weekly snapshot of Kansas crops shows the winter wheat harvest at 57 percent as of Sunday. The National Agricultural Statistics Service said Monday the harvest lags behind the 99 percent completed last year at the same time. The late-June average is 67 percent. Cutting was delayed this year by cool weather that delayed
the wheat’s maturity. The agency says just 85 percent of the wheat is now ripe. By this time a year ago, the entire crop was ripe. It rates the condition of wheat still in the field as 43 percent poor to very poor, 24 percent fair and 33 percent good to excellent. The Kansas report also says farmers have planted 97 percent of the sorghum crop and 95 percent of soybeans.
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