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By W. Gardner Selby | Monday, April 17, 2006, 01:00 PM

Hallway chatter among House members arriving today yielded this line repeatedly: “How many specials do we have to have before we stop calling ‘em special?”

Counting the 30-day session launching today, members have been called into special sessions seven times since June 2003 — in each instance by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.

Good ol’ days? That would have been the decade-plus between the end of the special session in December 1992 and the latest string.

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