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Over 100 GOP County Chairs Back David Cook for Texas House Speaker
Statewide leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and Attorney General Ken Paxton, have all endorsed the Republican caucus nomination process that selected Cook.
Abbott: House Speaker Must Come From Republican Caucus
Gov. Abbott’s statement followed an earlier message denying support for Dustin Burrows.
Texas Ethics Commission Overreach Criticized at Sunset Advisory Commission Hearing
The True Texas Project, attorney Tony McDonald, and former Round Rock ISD Trustee Danielle Weston shared testimony critical of the state agency.
Illegal Alien Smuggler Arrested, Owned Four Colony Ridge Properties
A Guatemalan national was arrested for his connection to a mass casualty smuggling event.
State Archive
Straus & The Stealth Dems
Many conservatives have suggested Texas House Speaker Joe Straus might be a little too cozy with the Legislature’s liberals. The policy results of that relationship has been mapped and diagrammed by a Rice University professor and publicized by the Texas Tribune. All...
Who Will Tax You?
Even as the legislative cheerleaders for raising gas taxes have been sidelined and admit there isn’t the political will to grow government while making travel and transportation more expensive, other big spenders are stepping up efforts to build new avenues draining...
Are current border enforcement schemes worth the money?
This weekend, AP reported: “A gunbattle erupted between Mexican police and gunmen near the Rio Grande on Saturday, killing one person and prompting U.S. authorities to close a highway that runs along the border in El Paso,… The gunmen attacked a municipal police...
Texans’ Tax Breaks Trigger Spending
It’s back-to-school time here in Texas, and we all know what that means: tax-free weekend is here! This weekend thousands of Texans will be heading to malls, shopping centers, and outlets across this state in order to purchase tax-exempt items for school such as...
Do Texas universities need higher appropriations?
Last Thursday’s hearing of the interim joint higher education committee in Austin was the first opportunity for several of Texas’ university leaders to address lawmakers on their progress toward becoming so-called Tier-One research institutions. I’m all for the plan,...
Cost Of Government Day
Tomorrow will be a better day, because it's the first day you start working for yourself and your family. From January 1 until today, though, you've been working to pay for the cost of government. And it's a month more than we were working just two years ago. Cost of...
Are many Texas officials any different from D.C. Democrats?
The volatility of the U.S. economy hasn’t been helped by Democrat and White House policies and those failed policies are hitting the Texas state budget hard – harder than estimated by the Comptroller a year ago. Comptroller Combs has issued new numbers showing that...
BillWhiteForTaxes.com Launches Today
As the campaign season heats up, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility today announced the launch of BillWhiteForTaxes.com, an independent look at the campaign tactics of gubernatorial candidate Bill White. “The site is a take-off on Mr. White’s own website, intended to...
Democrats Commit To Hiking Gas Taxes, Stalling Economy
Now we know what Bill White was doing while ducking President Obama's visit: he and his fellow Democrats were busily preparing to promote a scheme that would simultaneously stall Texas’ rebounding economy and grow government. Meanwhile, the state's House...