61.   Over the last year, Resnick has inflamed Republican legislators and business groups by writing majority opinions in two highly publicized cases.

62.   Pitts, a Republican legislator from Waxahachie, earlier this month proposed lowering the age of capital punishment even further.

63.   Perry said Brulte spent Wednesday talking to Republican legislators and staffers.

64.   Republican legislators and their lawyers interpreted the ruling as a judicial green light for a special session.

65.   Republican legislators dislike the prospect of cutting Medicare and triggering an uproar among senior citizens.

66.   Republican legislators, though, were mostly quiet Wednesday, apparently enjoying the spectacle of a Democratic lawmaker wounding his own president.

67.   Republican legislators and liberal consumer groups, however, called that unrealistic.

68.   Republican legislators said they had hoped that by expanding the program to include local government employees and teachers they could help local communities reduce their property tax bills.

69.   Republican legislators want to stiffen the law, but so far the Democrats resist.

70.   Republican state legislators are preparing to appoint electors should that deadline elapse.