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with Charles Kuffner  A procedural test   Tomorrow in the House,
Speaker Tom Craddick will hold a vote to suspend a
Constitutional prohibition against bringing non-emergency
legislation to the floor in the first 60 days of the session.
Though this is normally a formality, it won’t be this time.  It
would take four-fifths of the House’s 150 members to suspend the
rules. Craddick reminded members Thursday that the rule had been
suspended every legislative session but one.  But Tuesday’s vote
might be more difficult because as few as 31 members can kill
it.  Dunnam said he sees no reason to give Craddick, criticized
for being autocratic, a “blank check” to speed any legislation
he choses with very little committee input.  Dunnam said
Craddick used the rule suspension in 2003 to ram his pro-
business agenda, including curbing the ability of people to sue
companies.  Instead, given the level of distrust in the House,
Dunnam said the members should suspen