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Tex. pol’s abort-bill warning

Texas Senate Republicans “will probably be a little bit smarter” about passing a restrictive abortion bill in the special session that begins tomorrow, state Sen. Wendy Davis said.

Davis, a Democrat, last week blocked passage of an anti-abortion bill. She spoke for more than 10 hours on the Senate floor June 25 in a filibuster that sent the Austin capitol into chaos and catapulted her into the national spotlight. The maneuver effectively killed the bill.

Gov. Rick Perry has called the Legislature into special session tomorrow to give lawmakers another chance to vote on the bill.

“They mismanaged the clock terribly last time, and they also ran roughshod over a lot of our Senate rules and traditions to try to ram this bill through,” Davis said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”