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The best thing about the Texas Legislature is that it ends. Each regular session wraps up around Memorial Day, and then, God willing, lawmakers go home. That hasn’t happened yet this year. May 29 was supposed to be the last day. But on May 30, legislators were still in Austin, called by the governor into a special session to pass two bills—on property tax relief and border security—that had been casualties of infighting between the House and Senate in the regular session’s final days.Come July, the lawmakers are still here. When the first special session ended late last month, the House and Senate were still at loggerheads and hadn’t sent anything to the governor. So Abbott called a second special session. He has hinted the…

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