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January 25, 2012

President Obama Calls for Up-or-Down Vote on Judges

Justice
During his State of the Union address , President Obama called on the Senate to cease their unprecedented obstruction of judicial nominees. With 32 judicial emergencies across the country, including 5 here at home, the time has come to put the qualified,...
January 24, 2012

A Compromise on Medicaid Expansion?

Health Care
Texas Senator Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound), head of the Health and Human Services Committee has come out and said that Texas may not say no to federal Medicaid expansion funds as part of the Affordable Care Act after all. This seems like quite the change...
January 20, 2012

Perry Spent $2.7M of taxpayers' dollars on campaign

Accountability
Perry's 160-day vanity trip is now regarded as one of the three worst presidential campaigns in history, and we are the ones stuck footing the bill. Rick Perry is just another cut and spend conservative. He cut out public sector jobs and told corporations...
January 19, 2012

Rick Perry’s Taxpayer-Funded Security Costs

Accountability
MEMO: Rick Perry’s Taxpayer-Funded Security Costs SUMMARY: Estimates show Governor Perry owes $2,651,429.14 to Texas taxpayers for security-related travel costs incurred during his 160-day presidential run. With $2.47 million in his state account as of...
January 18, 2012

Update on the Medical Loss Ratio

Health Care
In December 2011, we joined with Texas Well & Healthy to launch efforts to protect better care for Texas taxpayers. Our petition called on the U.S. Health and Human Services agency to deny the Texas Department of Insurance’s waiver request about the...
January 17, 2012

Progress Texas Releases ALEC Exposed in Texas

Accountability
Over the last few months, we have blogged about ALEC and their influence on the Texas Legislature . Today, our work has culminated in the first of a series of reports detailing the influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on Texas...