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Texans for a Conservative Budget: Legislators must defend the Texas record with a responsible 2014-15 state budget

AUSTIN – Legislators should begin now to craft a 2014-2015 Texas state budget that preserves the foundations of fiscal responsibility and limited government that underlie the tremendous Texas economic and fiscal success of the past decade, according to Texans for a Conservative Budget, a coalition of policy and grassroots organizations.   The coalition released its...

Press Release March 20, 2012

January 2012 job numbers confirm Texas’ status as America’s economic engine

AUSTIN – Today’s release of Texas’ January 2012 employment report demonstrates the importance of the Lone Star State’s policy framework of free markets and limited government, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “January’s jobs report serves as a reminder of the importance of the state’s free market, limited government approach,” said James Quintero, the...

Press Release March 9, 2012

Richard A. Epstein joins the Texas Public Policy Foundation as Senior Fellow

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announced today that Professor Richard A. Epstein has joined the Foundation in the role of Senior Fellow. He will collaborate on research and writing projects for the Foundation’s Center for Tenth Amendment Studies. “It is an honor to welcome Richard, one of this country’s foremost constitutional experts, to...

Press Release March 8, 2012

Texas Public Policy Foundation report recommends expansion of digital learning in Texas

Virtual education and blended learning present great potential for delivering substantial academic gains and cost savings in Texas, according to a report published today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “At the K-12 level, the potential of virtual education is enormous,” said the report’s author, James Golsan. “Through the use of technology, students in rural...

Press Release March 6, 2012

Statement on federal threats to Texas’ Women’s Health Program

“The federal government’s proposed denial of Medicaid funds to the Texas Women’s Health Program threatens state sovereignty and the rule of law. Nothing in the federal Medicaid statutes prevents states from imposing their own requirements for qualified providers in addition to federal requirements. Indeed, the courts have long recognized this. “Despite decades of precedent, the...

Press Release March 1, 2012

Texas Public Policy Foundation statement on the passing of Andrew Breitbart

“The passing of Andrew Breitbart is a cause for much sorrow – but the life of Andrew Breitbart was a cause for much joy. Every defender of liberty takes heart in his accomplishments, and now in his legacy. He reminded us of things that should never be forgotten: that the truth has more power than...

Press Release March 1, 2012

Statement on Texas Supreme Court ruling supporting landowners’ rights to groundwater

“Today’s Texas Supreme Court ruling in Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day is a historic victory for the private property rights of Texas landowners. While acknowledging that private groundwater rights are fully compatible with regulation of groundwater, the Supreme Court explained that under law, landowners own groundwater just as they own the oil and gas below...

Press Release February 24, 2012

TPPF brief: ACA’s individual mandate violates U.S. Constitution

AUSTIN – The U.S. Congress lacks the constitutional authority to require that individuals purchase health insurance, as it did under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), argues an amicus curiae brief submitted yesterday to the United States Supreme Court by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “The individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act...

Press Release February 14, 2012

Foundation report warns of “EPA’s Approaching Regulatory Avalanche”

AUSTIN – Ten rules currently in the pipeline from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to a report published today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “Never in its 40-year history has EPA simultaneously promulgated so many major...

Press Release February 6, 2012

Statement by TPPF Executive Director Arlene Wohlgemuth

“Commissioner Suehs’ estimate is in line with what TPPF projected in our December 2010 report, Final Notice: Medicaid Crisis. Between the growth in caseload, surging medical costs, and the new mandates in ObamaCare, Medicaid will become the largest line item in the next Texas state budget and begin to crowd out priorities such as education....

Press Release February 2, 2012

TPPF statement on medical loss ratio waiver ruling

“Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services denied the Texas Department of Insurance’s (TDI) request for a waiver from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) requirements. Under the PPACA, small group and individual insurance policies are required to maintain an 80 percent MLR. This means that...

Press Release January 30, 2012

Foundation: Medicaid provisions of ObamaCare are unconstitutionally coercive of state governments

AUSTIN – The Medicaid expansion provisions of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) are a “massive frontal assault on State sovereignty” and unconstitutionally coercive of state governments, argues an amicus curiae brief submitted yesterday to the United States Supreme Court by the Texas Public Policy Foundation and 36 members of the Texas Legislature....

Press Release January 18, 2012