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This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• Gov. Greg Abbott appointing a full-time border security “czar”
• Abbott’s support for “education savings accounts” as a school choice proposal
• One Texas lawmaker’s goal to sunset the Texas Sunset Commission
• Lawsuits against a federal ATF rule that would criminalize possession of pistol braces in some states
• A possible settlement in the lawsuit of “whistleblowers” against Attorney General Ken Paxton
• A criticism of public education lobbyists by school choice advocates over inconsistency in their agenda
• A new bill requiring companies to label products containing ‘human fetal tissue’
• The Texas oil and gas industry’s recovery last year from its fall in 2021
• A provocative drag event in North Texas where children were in the audience
• An East Texas judge whose murder spree shocked a small town ten years ago
• Power outages in Central Texas during the winter storm