The Texas Public Policy Foundation lauded the Texas State Senate’s bipartisan approval today of SB1509, by Senator Brandon Creighton, a key election integrity bill. After passing the Senate 19-12, the bill now heads to the House. SB1509 addresses the fact that mail-in ballots can be too easily exploited by ballot traffickers in Texas. The commonsense...
Press Release April 28, 2021The Texas Public Policy Foundation sent a letter to the House and Senate budget conferees recommending that the final version of the budget include a provision to prevent Regional Education Service Centers and school districts from hiring registered lobbyists. The letter, signed by TPPF CEO Kevin Roberts, lays out in detail the “unethical and wrong”...
Press Release April 28, 2021The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer Kevin Roberts released the following statement ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union Address: “The first three months of the Biden Administration have been an unquestionable disaster for America and Americans. There are too many policy failures to list, though it is important to highlight the...
Press Release April 28, 2021The fight against human trafficking in Texas has been strengthened with the passage of a Texas Senate bill which will require sexually oriented businesses in the state to use E-Verify, an online system that employers can use to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States, as well as their age....
Press Release April 23, 2021The Texas Public Policy Foundation, representing a coalition of California businesses and individuals, filed suit to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s unreasonable delay in addressing the Foundation’s clients’ petition to reconsider endangerment and cause or contribute findings for greenhouse gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (the “Endangerment Finding”). Read the full complaint....
Press Release April 22, 2021The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s CEO Kevin Roberts released the following statement: “The push to expand Medicaid in Texas completely ignores the disaster most states have experienced. The most important issue is that by extending benefits to able-bodied adults, the system will crowd out the low-income women, children, and disabled Texans the program was designed...
Press Release April 22, 2021The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauded the package of bipartisan criminal justice reform bills put forward by Speaker Dade Phelan and Speaker Pro-Tem Moody that improve public safety, address law enforcement training, and give opportunities to those who deserve them. “The Speaker’s criminal justice package covers the gamut of incremental improvements that have been proposed...
Press Release April 21, 2021A coalition of more than two dozen former administration officials, former members of Congress, and top policy experts signed a letter to President Joe Biden demanding action to reverse the exploding crisis at the southern border. The list includes former Acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan,...
Press Release April 21, 2021This isn’t mercy—and it’s far from justice. Criminal cartels have been empowered by the Biden administration to extort, brutalize and even murder migrant families on their journeys to the southern U.S. border. TPPF’s Ken Oliver accompanied members of Congress to the border last month. They saw evidence of the sophistication of the criminal cartels that...
Press Release April 20, 2021The number of Texans who say there is a crisis at the border is the highest it’s been in over a year, with the percentage of those who say it is the most important issue Texas policymakers should address jumping 500% since just last September. The dramatic shift comes less than 100 days into President...
Press Release April 16, 2021Right on Immigration, the immigration policy arm of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), is calling on the Biden administration to designate Mexican drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations”. The call for the Mexican drug cartels to be formally designated by the United States as terrorist organization comes as Texas Governor Greg Abbott has also...
Press Release April 15, 2021Today, the Texas Senate gave approval to Senate Bill 10, a bill to stop cities and counties from using tax dollars to lobby. By prohibiting certain political subdivisions from using public money to hire registered lobbyists to advocate at the legislature, the Texas Senate has taken a vital step toward ending a pernicious practice that...
Press Release April 15, 2021