“When the Texas Public Policy Foundation considered its options for keynote speaker at this year’s 10th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature, there was no question that Governor Scott Walker was at the top of our list. His fight for accountable government, genuine democracy, and fiscal responsibility in his own state directly reflects the...
Press Release June 5, 2012“Rep. Ken Legler was a stalwart champion of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s energy and environment issues. I have known him for 20 years. He was a self-made man who created a now highly successful metal fabricating business, operating in the United States and several other countries. “Ever the joking clown, Ken could be easily...
Press Release June 1, 2012AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation President Brooke Rollins will make history on Monday, June 4, as she hosts the nationally syndicated broadcast of “The Mike Gallagher Show.” Part of the Salem Radio Network, “The Mike Gallagher Show” is the fastest-growing radio-talk program in the country, reaching roughly 3.5 million listeners each week on 165...
Press Release May 26, 2012AUSTIN – The recent attacks on the American Legislative Exchange Council stem from its critics’ fundamental opposition to limited government and economic freedom, write the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s top leaders in today’s Wall Street Journal. The op-ed, “Why the Left Wants to Blacklist ALEC,” was penned by Dr. Wendy Lee Gramm, the Foundation’s chairman of...
Press Release May 17, 2012AUSTIN – Chief Executive magazine’s ranking of Texas as America’s top state for business for the eighth year in a row further validates the free-market, limited-government actions taken by Texas policymakers, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “Businesses gravitate toward states and communities where they have the best chance to succeed,” said Chuck DeVore,...
Press Release May 4, 2012“Today, the University of Texas System regents have done right by the students at UT-Austin and their parents. Tuition and student loan debt at Texas universities have reached record highs, and higher education costs have far outpaced inflation and every other sector of the economy. This two-year tuition freeze is a much needed and long-overdue...
Press Release May 3, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announces that former California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore has joined its staff on a full-time basis as a Senior Fellow for Fiscal Policy. “Chuck DeVore has led a distinguished career in public service, from the Reagan Administration to the United States Army to the California State Assembly –...
Press Release May 1, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation, one of the nation’s premier state-based think tanks, has acquired 901 Congress Avenue, a mere few hundred feet from the south steps of the Texas State Capitol, as its new permanent headquarters. “When I arrived here nearly a decade ago, this Foundation was a small operation with a...
Press Release April 25, 2012AUSTIN – The Honorable Talmadge Heflin, director of the Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy and former chairman of the Texas House Appropriations Committee, joined Gov. Perry for today’s Houston press conference introducing the Texas Budget Compact. “There are few matters more central to our state’s continued prosperity than a fiscally responsible budget that continues the...
Press Release April 16, 2012AUSTIN – Texas’ seasonally adjusted employment rate dropped for a sixth consecutive month to 7.1 percent, according to a report released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission. This is more than a full percentage point below the national unemployment rate of 8.3 percent. “Texas’ unemployment rate has been at or below the national average for...
Press Release April 2, 2012AUSTIN – Two of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s scholars will appear on national television this week. At 4:30 p.m. CDT today, Mario Loyola, Director of the Foundation’s Center for Tenth Amendment Studies, will appear on the “Glenn Beck Television Show” to analyze this week’s U.S. Supreme Court argument in Florida v. HHS, the ObamaCare...
Press Release March 28, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announces the launch of PPACAction.com, a special website devoted to live coverage of next week’s U.S. Supreme Court argument in Florida v. HHS. The case, to be taken up by the Court March 26 through 28, involves the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)...
Press Release March 23, 2012