“Today’s action plan from Chancellor Cigarroa is an important and welcome recognition that Texas students and parents can no longer afford business as usual from our state’s higher education institutions. The measures put forward today should lead to a better academic experience for students, and improved performance of the University of Texas System. “We congratulate...
Press Release August 25, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s President and CEO Brooke Rollins defended Texas’ extraordinary economic progress, exceptional job growth, health care innovation, and groundbreaking education reforms on Morning in America with Bill Bennett yesterday on the Salem Radio Network. “Bill Bennett’s Morning in America opens a daily dialogue with men and women all across...
Press Release August 24, 2011"Today's ruling in Florida v. HHS is a resounding victory for champions of limited government under the Constitution. The constitutional restraints on federal power have been eroding for the better part of a century, largely because the Supreme Court abdicated its role as guardian of those restraints during the New Deal. It is very heartening...
Press Release August 12, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s work in juvenile justice reform was recognized this week in The New York Times editorial titled Texas’s Progress on Juvenile Justice. The achievements lauded by The New York Times were spearheaded by Marc Levin, Director of the Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice and Vikrant Reddy, Center for Effective...
Press Release July 11, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Legislature deserves praise for sending the Health Care Compact to Gov. Rick Perry’s desk, the Texas Public Policy Foundation said. The Health Care Compact was included in the conference committee report on Senate Bill 7, which won final approval in both houses earlier today. “The Texas Legislature’s approval of our state’s...
Press Release June 27, 2011AUSTIN – “The U.S. has far more energy resources than any other country, yet no other country so limits and blocks access to its own energy supply,” writes Kathleen Hartnett White in the latest issue of National Review. Ms. White, Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the Texas Public Policy...
Press Release June 7, 2011AUSTIN – Professor Richard A. Epstein of the University of Chicago, New York University, and the Hoover Institution, has joined Mario Loyola, director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Tenth Amendment Studies, as a co-author of an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal challenging the constitutionality of last year’s federal health care reform...
Press Release June 7, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation publicly urges Gov. Rick Perry to include the Health Care Compact in his call for the upcoming special session. Legislation containing the Health Care Compact was approved twice by the Texas House and once by the Texas Senate. However, the final legislation containing the compact died due to...
Press Release May 30, 2011"The life of Governor Bill Clements was truly a tale of the American Dream. From humble beginnings, he came of age in the Great Depression, and went on to serve his country in the Army in the Second World War. His success as a self-made entrepreneur embodied so much of the promise of our great...
Press Release May 29, 2011“We congratulate the Texas Legislature on passing a budget that cuts non-essential spending, does not spend a penny of the rainy day fund, and does not create new taxes. The mandate from Texas voters last November was to pass a fiscally responsible budget, and the 82nd Legislature delivered. “This is the first all-funds Texas state...
Press Release May 28, 2011“We congratulate the conference committee on CSHB 1 for finalizing an agreement on a 2012-13 Texas state budget. We encourage our legislators to complete their constitutional duty and adopt this budget when it reaches the House and Senate floors on Saturday. “The 2012-13 all-funds budget will be $15 billion lower than in the current biennium,...
Press Release May 26, 2011“Today’s Senate passage of HB 274, the ‘loser pays’ bill, is a great step forward for Texas and another step toward getting rid of many frivolous lawsuits that are clogging our courts. This statute will ensure that any Texan who has been wronged will have access to the judicial system. It will cut the costs...
Press Release May 24, 2011