Tale of 10 lawmakers: RGV delegates' legislative highlights of 2013

Jared Janes, The Monitor

McALLEN — Here’s a look at the 10 delegates’ key feats from the 2013 legislative session:

State Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg

Canales on how the state budget restores cuts to education, a key part of his campaign platform:

“The budget, in my opinion, had a lot of good and some bad, but it was a cost-benefit analysis,” Canales said. “We restored much of the cuts that the previous session had imposed upon us. We still have a long ways to go with respect to education funding but we’ve come far from what we began with.”

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