Today, a coalition of advocates for sound tax policy called for the Legislature to give significant property tax relief to Texans during the special session. The group — comprised of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, and Americans for Tax Reform— said the Legislature has at least $5 billion it can...
Press Release August 30, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation applauded the passage of an election reform bill that would expand poll access, create stronger voter protections, and improve rules to ensure legitimate election results. The bill, S.B. 1, officially passed the House and will be sent to the Senate where swift approval is expected. The bill addresses a number...
Press Release August 27, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the CDC eviction moratorium: TPPF and Southeastern Legal Foundation are lead counsel in Terkel v. Centers for Disease Control, a constitutional challenge to the federal government’s eviction moratorium currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
Press Release August 27, 2021Ahead of today’s vote on the budget resolution, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer Kevin Roberts released the following statement: “Owing to the historically reckless spending in Washington, D.C., working families across the country are being hit by the highest levels of inflation in decades. President Biden and Speaker Pelosi’s solution to the problem...
Press Release August 24, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released the latest episode in its “Forging Texas” history series, focusing on the origins of and motivations for the Texas Revolution. The third and newest episode is titled “The Battle of San Jacinto.” To accompany the release, TPPF hosted a premiere event for Texans from across the state, while also inviting highly regarded Texas...
Press Release August 19, 2021Massive abuse of the U.S. asylum system, coupled with increasingly lax enforcement of federal immigration laws in the interior of the country, is driving the current border crisis and both problems need to be fixed to turn the situation around, according to border security and immigration experts at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “Expediting the...
Press Release August 19, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation responded to the filing of a lawsuit by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce challenging price transparency rules for insurers. The rules are the second part of a two-part Trump administration push to make health care prices more transparent to the American people....
Press Release August 13, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation asked to intervene in an election integrity lawsuit, representing the election administrators of Medina and Real counties responsible for voter registration. TPPF has filed to defend Senate Bill 1111, a commonsense requirement that voters use their home address to indicate the appropriate location in which they can vote, as...
Press Release August 11, 2021Following the U.S. Senate’s vote on the infrastructure package, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer Kevin Roberts released the following statement: “The U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package that adds at least a quarter of a trillion dollars to the already bloated national debt and spends less than 10% on actual infrastructure—roads...
Press Release August 10, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation announced that Michael Shires, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, is the new Visiting Senior Fellow for the Foundation’s Next Generation Texas initiative. Shires, also the Associate Dean for Strategy and Special Projects at Pepperdine, is a leading expert on California’s Proposition 13...
Press Release August 9, 2021JACKSON, Miss.— Brett Tolman, Executive Director of the conservative criminal justice reform organization Right on Crime, announces the expansion of its campaign to have a full-time presence in Mississippi, with Scott Peyton as the State Director. “While we know there are issues that need immediate attention in Mississippi, such as prison overcrowding, there are tremendous...
Press Release August 9, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation applauded Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to call a second special session, a necessary step for conducting the business of the people of Texas. After an incomplete 87th Legislative Session, and a Special Session in which Democratic lawmakers fled the state and left the House without a quorum, elected...
Press Release August 6, 2021