"He gets out of his seat and gets it done, " says Austin political consultant Bill Miller.

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Bill Austin, a fourth-generation cave-owner, still rails at the National Park Service for forcing him to sell off a portion of his cave land in 1961.

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Kirk Watson, a Democrat representing Austin, proposed a bill that would have merely set up a task force to study climate change.

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