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MEDIA AVAILABILITY: TPPF’s Marc Levin to testify tomorrow on criminal justice reform before U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Marc Levin, Director of the Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime will testify before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Thursday, July 15, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. EDT in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Levin will testify on criminal justice reform.

Press Release July 14, 2015

TOMORROW: TPPF hosts book talk and signing with “End of Discussion” co-authors Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson

The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host the book talk and signing “End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (And Fun!)” with co-authors Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. CDT in the Joe B. Hogsett Theater of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Press Release July 13, 2015

TPPF statement on Texas comptroller’s announcement that Texas will not borrow to meet cash flow needs

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar this week released a statement noting that for the first time in nearly thirty years Texas will not have to issue Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes (TRANs), short-term (one year or less) debt obligations to meet cash flow needs, for fiscal 2016.

Press Release July 9, 2015

TPPF statement on U.S. House Committee hearing on EPA overreach

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White, Fueling Freedom Project Director Doug Domenech, and Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Policy Analyst Leigh Thompson issued the following statements on today’s U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory overreach.

Press Release July 9, 2015

TPPF statement on Moody’s “negative” debt outlook for the City of Houston

Moody’s Investor Services, one of the nation’s top three credit rating agencies, revised the City of Houston’s general obligation debt outlook to “negative” citing, among other things, increased government spending, rising debt payments, and mounting pension costs. Moody’s report is the latest signal that the status quo is unsustainable in the Bayou City.

Press Release July 7, 2015

Species reclassification effort draws widespread support

One week after Texans for Positive Economic Policy, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Reason Foundation presented new scientific evidence on the status of the golden-cheeked warbler, multiple leaders encouraged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reclassify the songbird.

Press Release July 7, 2015

Groups file to reclassify endangered species

On Monday, three groups filed an official petition requesting that the golden-cheeked warbler, a migratory songbird that nests only in Texas, be removed from the list of endangered and threatened species, citing verified scientific evidence of ample populations and habitat. Counsel for Texans for Positive Economic Policy (led by former Texas Comptroller Susan Combs), the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Reason Foundation hand-delivered the petition to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) offices in Washington, DC.

Press Release July 1, 2015

TPPF statement on Texas challenge to Environmental Protection Agency’s redefinition of “waters of the United States”

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for the American Future Robert Henneke issued the following statement on the lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act Rule, which redefines “the waters of the United States” under the federal Clean Water Act.

Press Release June 30, 2015

Texas Public Policy Foundation statement on U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Michigan v. EPA

Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White and Fueling Freedom Project Director Doug Domenech issued the following statements in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Michigan et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. case.

Press Release June 29, 2015

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: TPPF experts available to discuss Michigan v. EPA SCOTUS ruling

Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White and Policy Analyst Leigh Thompson are available to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Michigan v. Environmental Protection Agency.

Press Release June 29, 2015

TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION STATEMENT ON U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING IN OBERGEFELL ET AL. v. HODGES, DIRECTOR, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ET AL.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s President and CEO Brooke Rollins, and its Director of the Center for Tenth Amendment Action, Thomas Lindsay, Ph.D., issued the following statements in reaction to the Supreme Court of the United States’s ruling in the Obergefell case this morning.

Press Release June 26, 2015

TPPF statement on Indiana stand against federal overreach

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Fueling Freedom Project Director Doug Domenech issued the following statement on Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s letter to President Obama stating that Indiana will not comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP) if the final rule is not “demonstrably and significantly improved.”

Press Release June 26, 2015