State
Texas Earns Financial Grade of ‘C’ From Watchdog Group
According to the report, Texas did not have enough assets to cover its debts in 2023.
Huffines: Time for Texas to Ban Taxpayer-funded Lobbying
A new solutions paper outlines steps the legislature can take to ensure taxes do not go toward killing citizen-priority legislation.
The Chinese Threat to Texas’ Power Grid
Specialists warn the communist nation has already penetrated the state’s power grid and is in a prime position to wreak havoc on millions of Texans.
Texas Sues Major Insulin Manufacturers For Conspiracy To Increase Drug Prices
Attorney General Paxton said that big pharma is working with pharmacy benefit managers to take advantage of diabetes victims.
State Archive
Straus Facts #11: Joe Straus Killed Spending Caps
In 2012, 94 percent of Republicans voted in favor of a proposition calling for a strong state spending cap based on the combined growth of population and inflation. This session, the Texas Senate responded, passing Senate Bill 9. The bill would have put the Republican...
Straus Facts #10: Joe Straus Defends Late-Term Abortions
When pro-life conservatives were successful on the House floor this session, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus took the victory away from them. Rep. Matt Schaefer, a conservative from Tyler, worked against House leadership to successfully amend a must-pass Health and...
Straus Facts #9: Joe Straus Attacked Gov. Abbott’s Agenda
It was clear from the start of the recent legislative session that Speaker Joe Straus opposed Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda—even going so far as to attack reform proposals the governor campaigned on. Most notably, Straus told an audience at the University of Texas at...
Lack of Union Dues Reform Hinders Local Control
State managed pensions hinder the ability of local governments to negotiate plans that are reasonably in line with what they can afford, but the road to local control has a major road block – government collection of union dues. The way to level the playing field...
Texas Medical Schools Purchased Aborted Fetal Tissue from Planned Parenthood
A conservative attorney is out with bombshell evidence showing that Texas medical schools have been purchasing organs taken from aborted babies by Planned Parenthood. Briscoe Cain, the Texas legal counsel to the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, revealed invoices...
Straus Facts #8: Joe Straus Enables Democrats
In 2009, a coalition of Democrats and liberal Republicans empowered Joe Straus to become Speaker of the House. In exchange for their continued support, Straus empowers Democrats and liberal Republicans to chair important House committees, while relegating...
Straus Facts #7: Joe Straus Attacks Whistleblower
When a whistleblower uncovered and exposed an admissions scandal at the University of Texas at Austin, Joe Straus attacked him. UT Regent Wallace Hall discovered that legislators had been abusing the admissions system at UT Austin to get under-qualified children of...
Stickland Fought Obamacare, Fisher Pushed It
Even as Jonathan Stickland was fighting against liberal efforts to bring Obamacare to Texas, his opponent was working to bring Obama’s big government program to the Lone Star State. While Scott Fisher was serving as “Past Board Chair” of Tarrant County’s...
Abbott Unloads on Straus and other Legislators over Ethics Obstruction
In an interview with KVUE News looking back on his first year as Governor, Greg Abbott unloaded on the legislators who killed his ethics reform agenda, calling their obstruction “reprehensible” and “shameful.” The chief obstructions were House Speaker Joe Straus...