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Texas taxpayers cannot find out the total amount of state pension benefits being paid to retired lawmakers who now work as lobbyists, an Austin judge said Tuesday morning.

Ruling in a lawsuit filed by the government watchdog group Texans for Public Justice, state District Judge Lora Livingston said that even the grand total of pension benefits paid to the 103 former lawmakers now registered as lobbyists is confidential because the Legislature has made it so.