Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White and Director of the Fueling Freedom Program Doug Domenech issued the following statements on the announcement today that the U.S. Department of the Interior will launch a comprehensive review of the federal coal program.
Press Release January 15, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation today announced Mayes Middleton as the newest member of its Board of Directors. He is President of Middleton Oil Company, an independent oil and gas company that operates in South Texas and along the Gulf Coast. He also manages his family’s mineral holdings throughout the state, as well as ranching, cattle and farming operations located in Chambers, Jefferson, Kimble, Liberty and Webb Counties.
Press Release January 13, 2016President Obama is expected to discuss criminal justice reform in his final State of the Union Address tonight. TPPF experts, Marc Levin, Director of the Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime; Derek Cohen, Deputy Director of the Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime; and Greg Glod, Policy Analyst with the Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime are available to discuss criminal justice reform.
Press Release January 12, 2016At the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) 14th Annual Policy Orientation today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an Article V Convention of States to amend the Constitution for the purpose of limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government. TPPF experts Dr. Tom Lindsay, Director of the Center for 10th Amendment Action at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and The Honorable Robert Henneke, General Counsel and Director of the Center for American of Freedom are available to discuss the endorsement.
Press Release January 8, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 14th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature convenes its third and final day, TODAY, Friday, January 8, 2016 with a breakfast keynote featuring presidential campaign advisors discussing “Strategy & Democracy: A Conversation on the 2016 Presidential Elections” and a closing keynote luncheon featuring Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who will make a major policy announcement expected to spark a national conversation.
Press Release January 8, 2016he Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) announced today that Texas Governor Greg Abbott will make a major policy announcement expected to spark a national conversation. Gov. Abbott will make the announcement at the closing keynote at the 14th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature TOMORROW, Friday, January 8, 2016 at 12:30 pm CST at the Hilton Austin Hotel in the Grand Ballroom.
Press Release January 7, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 14th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature convenes its second day, TODAY, Thursday, January 7, 2016 with a breakfast keynote featuring former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and a luncheon keynote on education freedom with former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Nevada Lieutenant Governor Mark Hutchison, and Commissioner George P. Bush.
Press Release January 7, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 14th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature begins TODAY, Wednesday, January 6, 2016 with a luncheon keynote by Medal of Honor recipient Sgt Dakota Meyer USMC and panels discussing criminal justice, spending vs. taxation, Texas’ health care crisis, telemedicine, college affordability for Texas’ rising low-income majority, poverty, and forced annexation.
Press Release January 6, 2016Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White issued the following statement on the export of Texas oil following the repeal of the 40-year ban on oil exports.
Press Release January 5, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 14th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature begins TOMORROW, Wednesday, January 6, 2016 and runs through Friday, January 8, 2016. This year’s sold-out Policy Orientation takes place at the Hilton Austin Hotel, and will feature an array of prominent speakers on the major issues affecting the future of Texas.
Press Release January 5, 2016Today, the Texas Workforce Commission released Texas labor market data for November 2015. The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy Economist Dr. Vance Ginn issued the following statement.
Press Release December 18, 2015Yesterday, the Austin City council voted to enact new regulations on transportation networking companies like Uber and Lyft. Among the new regulations passed by the Council in a 9-2 vote were a fingerprint-based background check for drivers to be phased in over the next year, a mandate that ridesharing companies have a representative in Austin, and data-sharing requirements.
Press Release December 18, 2015