Texas State legislators almost unanimously voted for the “Texas educational residency bill” and gave it to Governor Perry to sign off on.
Michele Bachmann, as one of her state’s legislators herself, exhibited some reservations but then actually voted YES to the exact same thing... TWO TIMES IN FACT.
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In-state tuition for undocumented students part of Bachmann’s past, too
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It turns out that Bachmann voted for a similar measure in 2005 while serving in the Minnesota Senate. The language, which was included in a larger higher education funding bill, would have allowed students who had attended a Minnesota high school for three years or more, had graduated and had enrolled in public Minnesota college to pay in-state tuition.
During debate of the bill, Bachmann spoke in support of an amendment that would have required such students to be legal residents as well.
“Is citizenship a privilege, or is it a right?” she asked on May 5, 2005, the day the chamber debated the bill. “It seems like the understanding we’ve always had in this nation is that citizenship is a privilege for those who are not born in this nation... This [bill] is affirmatively having our state make a new decision about citizenship. And really by doing this, we are answering that citizenship is now a right as opposed to a privilege.”
She voted for the amendment, which failed.
But when it came time to vote on final school funding bill, Bachmann was one of 63 senators who voted in favor of the legislation; three lawmakers, including two Republicans, opposed the bill.
Later that day, the Senate replaced the House’s bill - which did not include the tuition language - with its version of the legislation; again Bachmann voted in favor of the bill.
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