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Dustin Burrows: “The speaker has called to restore the Medicaid therapy cuts…”

Featuring: Dustin Burrows, Republican | Texas House of Representatives, District 83

A conversation with Reps. Dustin Burrows & Drew Darby

Published January 19, 2017 | Video Starts at 33:40

The part of the story that I think also needs to be told is you have seen members be responsive when we actually, you know, above those concerns, The speaker has called to restore the Medicaid therapy cuts, fully support his initiative to do that. with the caps down In Houston, the 8.5%. You've seen tea come in and basically go back on that. So you've actually seen that with cps. (33:40–33:46)

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Asserts that the speaker has called to restore Medicaid therapy cuts and supports this initiative.

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“The Supreme Court made the right decision just based on the law.”
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“Small schools are being penalized just for being small and rural.”
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“It costs more to get calculus teachers and physics teachers out to West Texas.”
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“Right now I don't believe that's factored in accordingly.”
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“It is harder to attract some of the teachers and retain the teachers we need in these small schools right now.”
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“I do have an issue with calling some of my schools F. They're not F schools.”
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“They're not. I just know they're not. They're great schools, great kids, great superintendents.”
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“Some of the schools that I saw are not F schools.”
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“My priorities are funding for rural schools.”
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“I'm not going to be filing a bill anytime soon to bring school choice, but I'll at least listen.”
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“You have got to have accountability. If tax dollars follow, I mean, if we're talking about, you know, special education, you know, vouchers…”
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“It's their job to do it. One of the few roles the federal government ought to be is secure our border.”
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“We're still having [drug busts], it's still getting here, but it's coming around through Arizona and New Mexico.”
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“A technological wall and an increased forces seems to be what made the most sense.”
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“My hope is for full repeal [of the Affordable Care Act] and let Texas have the responsibility of figuring it out.”
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“Price transparency is the key and then trying to put market forces in there.”
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“We have provided more money, which is the number one thing. They wanted to hire more people so that we reduced the caseload and pay them…”
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“We are making the appropriations to what the core things they've asked.”
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“The House actually has a much more thoughtful version [of the bathroom bill].”
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“[Matt Shaheen's bill] simply says we're not going to go have HERO ordinances.”
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“[Matt Shaheen's bill opposes] local ordinances that try to do what HERO did, which basically makes LGBTQ a protected class.”
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“Some of these discrimination ordinances have gotten a little bit out of control in other parts of the country.”
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“You're going to have this patchwork of ideas that aren't good for the economy of the state of Texas.”
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“I think there's economic predictions, but I think that some of them are probably inflated.”
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“The budget we put out is obviously the conversation you and I continue to have. Very thoughtful, very good House budget and really think it…”
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“When you have a commodities based economy, especially oil and gas and all your property values continue to go up and up and up because we're…”
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“We obviously have more money in the account than seven and a half million.”
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