Presented by Harvey Kronberg, Editor of Quorum Report

Join Winstead for a post-election analysis on key issues impacting Texas businesses, featuring guest speaker Harvey Kronberg.

The upcoming Texas Legislative sessions face challenges unlike others in modern history. With the backdrop of COVID infections doubling or tripling, lawmakers are scrambling to come up with new rules and protocols to conduct what is constitutionally a public event. The mechanics of keeping the legislature from becoming a spreader event, even with vaccines on the horizon, are changing by the day. With policymakers considering banning the public and advocates from the Capitol and well over 50 committees having to meet in the House and Senate, what steps are being taken to retain the “public” nature of the session? Financial challenges to the state are always difficult to predict, but a down fourth quarter could significantly grow a shortfall many expect to be in the neighborhood of $15 billion with an injured economy. Add to that, a new speaker and a raft of new House committees and chairman, and the future is even less clear. Finally, the highly expected blue wave never materialized. What message does that send to both parties in both chambers?

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Harvey Kronberg is the Editor of Quorum Report—the Newsletter of Political Texas, a non-partisan online publication, covering state politics and government from an insider's perspective. The Quorum Report is Texas’ longest running publication, written exclusively for political insiders and business professionals. The publication began in 1983 with Harvey joining as a contract writer in 1989 and later becoming the editor. During that time, Harvey did double duty, serving as a regular political columnist for the Austin American Statesman in the 1990s and a frequent guest contributor to the Houston Chronicle.