Gov. Rick Perry Thursday declared as emergency items voter ID legislation and a bill calling for a balanced budget amendment in the U.S. Constititution - allowing lawmakers to take up both items early in their current session. The action on voter ID puts that measure on a fast track for approval a day after the Senate adopted rules that exempt the issue from a Senate requirement that two-thirds of members concur before legislation can be brought up on the Senate floor. That effectively eliminates the ability of Democrats to block the proposal.
"Fiscal discipline, balanced budgets and the integrity of the ballot box are critical to the people of Texas," Perry said in announcing his latest emergency items. "Texas lawmakers will now be able to address these priority issues more quickly." The governor had previously declared a ban on sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants and private property rights as emergencies. All four topics are considered important to Republican Party activists, while Democrats question whether any are real emergencies.
Under the leading voter ID bill in the Senate, Texans for the first time would have to show a photo ID to vote - a drivers licenses, DPS identification card, military ID or a U.S. passport. The balanced budget proposal calls for passage of a constitutional amendment that would require Congress to pass a budget with expenditures that could not exceed federal revenues in a given year.
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/01/governor-makes-voter-id-balanc.html
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