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, 2015One 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, 2015On 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, 2015The 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, 2015Texas 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, 2015Texas 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, 2015The 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, 2015The 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, 2015Texas Public Policy Foundation’s President and CEO Brooke Rollins, Center for the Health Care Policy Director John Davidson, and Center for the American Future Director Robert Henneke issued the following statements on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the King v. Burwell case.
Press Release June 25, 2015Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for the American Future Director Robert Henneke and Center for the Health Care Policy Director John Davidson are available to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on King v. Burwell.
Press Release June 25, 2015The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Director of the Fueling Freedom Project Doug Domenech issued the following statement on the passage of H.R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection Act, by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Press Release June 25, 2015The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host a policy primer on the outcomes of the 84th Legislative Session TODAY, Tuesday, June 23, at 11:30 a.m. in the Joe B. Hogsett Theater at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The Policy Primer is part of a series of statewide Traveling Primers on the Outcomes of the 84th Texas Legislative Session.
Press Release June 23, 2015