The Texan Podcast - Daily Rundown - November 11, 2024

Starting point is 00:00:00 Howdy folks, today is Monday, November 11th, and you're listening to the Texans Daily Rundown. I'm the Texans Assistant Editor Rob Lausches, and here is the rundown of today's news in Texas politics. First up, with the polls closed and votes tallied, school choice could be coming to Texas after a number of new pro-school choice state house members were elected on November 5th. School choice has been the top issue for Governor Greg Abbott over the course of the last two years. Prior to the March 5th primary, he went as far as endorsing the 58 members who voted against an amendment from Representative John Rainey stripping education savings accounts, or ESAs, from the November 2023 special session education legislation. An ESA allows the per-student education funding that would normally

Starting point is 00:00:53 go to a child's public school to instead be stored in a state account, where parents can access the money to use on private school tuition or educational materials. Sixteen members who voted for the Rainey Amendment faced primaries this year, and at the end of the night last Tuesday, 26 pro-school choice Republicans were voted into the Texas House, resulting in a net gain of two Republicans in the lower chamber. Denise Villalobos in House District 34 and Don McLaughlin in HD80 flipped historically Democrat-held seats. Stay tuned for more news updates after this short message. the revolutionary artificial intelligence solution designed to transform how you track and analyze government meetings and legislation.

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Starting point is 00:02:31 a campaign filled to the brim with criticism of the laws and whether or not they're sufficiently descriptive. The board adopted amendments on June 21, 2024 to clarify abortion exceptions under state law, defining certain language such as what constitutes an abortion, reasonable medical judgment, and a medical emergency. Following the Texas Supreme Court's ruling in May that physicians may utilize reasonable medical judgment when determining whether an abortion is needed for medical purposes. Texas Medical Board President Dr. Sharif Zafran said at the time in reference to the amendments, quote, this clarification is consistent with the leading

Starting point is 00:03:11 opinion of the Texas Supreme Court on this matter. He continued, quote, physicians must use reasonable medical judgment consistent with the patient's informed consent and with the oath each physician swears to do what is medically necessary when responding to an active, imminent, or potential medical emergency that places a pregnant woman in danger of death or serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function. He added, quote, unfortunately, that sometimes includes induced termination of pregnancy. In other news, while conducting his 101st combat mission over North Vietnam in 1965, Colonel James Lamar was shot down and he ejected from his cockpit while flying over 700 knots. Lamar survived but was trapped in a tree with a broken arm.

Starting point is 00:03:59 Then captured by peasants, Lamar was turned over to the North Vietnamese military. He survived seven years of captivity as a prisoner of war in the Hanoi Hilton, subjected to torture and abuse. Visitors to the National Vietnam War Museum in Mineral Wells, about 50 miles west of Fort Worth, can learn more about the context of stories of POWs, along with the history of the Vietnam conflict. Believing the Vietnam War era has been misrepresented and misunderstood for decades, and given that no national venue focused on the era existed, the founders of the National Vietnam War Museum designed it to, quote, present an unbiased and balanced view of the events and participants of the Vietnam era,

Starting point is 00:04:41 and to allow visitors to form their own opinions based on facts. This Veterans Day, the Texan thanks all who have served. Last but not least, on the latest episode of our Send Me Some Stuff podcast, reporter Cameron Abrams and yours truly go through the election results from swing states to voter demographics, going back to 2016 and 2020. Predictions were made, and some were even proven right. Visit thetexan.news or wherever you get podcasts to listen. Thanks for listening. To support The Texan, please be sure to visit thetexan.news and subscribe to get full access to all of our articles, newsletters, and podcasts.

The Texan Podcast - Daily Rundown - November 11, 2024

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