Every Tuesday, we'll be featuring blogs from the Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Blog Roundup, where notable Texas progressive blogs choose their favorite articles to be represented. This week's round-up is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.

It was a shot heard ’round the world. Well, that’s a serious overstatement, but it was a shot heard ’round the Texas political world and one that will continue to reverberate well into the future.

Reuters has a story this weekend about what the situation in the Senate will look like in the 2008 elections. The verdict is that things look good for Democrats.

John Cornyn is taking a beating for voting against the SCHIP expansion. I imagine he is surprised by that.

The House today passed HR2470, a bill to look into Blackwater and its questionable activities in Iraq. This bill was met with plenty of criticism from both the White House and Blackwater President Erik Prince, but both conceded that the time for accountability has come. With the death toll on Blackwater's tab up to around 200 in two years, and no government oversight over the company hired to protect civilians and government officials in Iraq, there now appears to be action from all sides of government.

New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici (R) has decided against trying to be a Senator again. You know what that means.

House Democrats will begin chatting up the House Republicans today to gain a two-thirds majority to override President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP bill, which would increase funding for CHIP by $35 Billion over the next five years. Congressmen and women, start your schmoozing!

This bill seeks to bring more healthcare coverage for approximately 10 million American children, whose families do not qualify for Medicare, but are unable to afford private insurance coverage.

Yesterday, NPR had a story on how Japan is confronting global warming. One approach was hiring a famous extreme martial artist, Nobuhiko Takada, to help educate the public on ways they could help reduce emissions.

The Senate race in Nebraska, which Bush Administration Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns resigned to run in, has narrowed as one of his opponents dropped out. And by dropped out, I mean "bought $30,000 in statewide advertising and then dropped out."

When Gen. David Petraeus went before Congress a couple of weeks ago, it brought back memories. And while his appearance received fairly high marks from pundits and many scored it a public relations victory for the White House, I wasn’t left with a sense of optimism as I was the first time I met the general.