The Texas House on Tuesday voted to encourage state budget writers to give Attorney General Ken Paxton nearly $64,000 in back pay to cover the time that he was suspended while impeached. Under the Texas Constitution,

Members of the Texas House of Representatives approved a motion to support giving more than $63,000 in back-pay to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton related to his impeachment trial, as a small number of state senators and representatives plan to meet behind closed doors to iron out the state's budget.