The legislative session that began with Senate Republicans changing the rules to advance a partisan agenda, ended with Republican leaders in the House putting that same partisan agenda ahead of numerous policy priorities at the close of the session.  Democrats had to derail much of the calendar to fight what they regarded as unfair voter suppression.

This provided perfect partisan warfare bookends to the legislative session that put politics ahead of policy. Republican Senator John Carona from Dallas said it best when he described this as Republicans “reaping what we have sown.”