Right, but we can't compare them to each other without more information, so I don't think your rebuttal works. Given the political differences between Californi

Right, but we can't compare them to each other without more information, so I don't think your rebuttal works. Given the political differences between California and Texas, there is the possible scenario that these ~1700 bills in Texas were very small, relatively pointless pieces of legislation, while California's ~700 were enormous and relatively overbearing. In case we're just debating the meaning of "busy"... Texans want their politicians to be busy doing relatively nothing, for the most part, and I think this is the general attitude expressed in the parent comment.