Lawmakers Call it Quits, Leave Unfinished Business

According to an article in the Texas Tribune on 6/29/2011, written by Thanh Tan, Lawmakers Call it Quits, Leave Unfinished Business, the Texas Senate ended a special session without completing the work at hand.  Governor Perry had two priorities for this session: Sanctuary Cities and TSA Pat Downs.  The Sanctuary Cities Bill would have allowed peace officers to ask questions pertaining to immigration and nationality throughout all Texas cities.  The main focus of this article, TSA Pat Downs, would have banned intrusive searches by federal airport security officers.  Neither task was passed to completion.  This article gives a good analysis of the issues surrounding the internal conflict between Republicans and Democrats and their inability to come to an agreement for important issues.  The governor doesn't seem interested in calling for another session.  One member of the public commented angrily, "If you cowards don't protect us, we'll protect ourselves."