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August 1, 2014 4:56 PM
Lite Gov nominee wants the LBB to weigh in; Straus says the governor’s disaster funds would be appropriate to begin with
Following a Texas
House committee hearing on the fiscal impacts of Gov. Perry’s decision to send as many as 1,000 Texas National Guard
troops to the border, a key Senate Democrat is asking exactly how
all this is going to be paid for.
The added forces on the
border are projected to cost Texas taxpayers $17 million a month. That money
is, of course, not in the current budget. The leadership has yet to figure out
what other programs may be cut to pay for this.
In addition to being her
party’s nominee for Lt. Governor, Sen. Leticia
Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, is also the Chair of the Senate Committee on Veteran
Affairs and Military Installations. In that role, Van de Putte said the
vagueness of the source of funding for troops to be "extremely concerning.”
In a letter sent on
Thursday to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst
and Speaker Joe Straus, Van de Putte
said there is a "lack of clarity" when it comes to Perry’s plan for
the troops under Operation Strong Safety.
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August 1, 2014 4:55 PM
Oil, gas regulator viewed increasingly with ‘distrust, even disgust’
The Libertarian candidate for Texas
Railroad Commission called Friday for a series of public policy debates
that examine the oil and gas regulator’s role in preserving individual
liberties, such as the rights of surface landowners, among other things.
A petroleum engineer with 42 years’ experience in the oil
and gas, including 18 teaching the subject at the University of Texas at Austin,
Mark Miller stressed that the
current oil and gas boom has thrust the commission’s increasingly important
work into the public spotlight.
And, he says in an open letter, the people of Texas are
getting far too little substance from Republican Ryan Sitton, an energy
engineer, and Democrat Steve Brown, former Democratic Party Chairman of
Fort Bend County.
“Public statements from the major party candidates are, not
unexpectedly, long on platitudes and short on specifics. And, the discourse about
oil and gas issues outside the commissioner race seems highly polarized between
undying support of oil and gas vs. ending fracking at all costs,” Miller writes
in his letter.
The complete story can be found in Texas Energy Report.
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August 1, 2014 2:27 PM
From the left-- The most important Obama foreign policy wins you never heard
I get
it. When foreigners challenge America, we want our President to scream bloody
murder and then send in the Marines to make sure it happens. Forget about
talking softly. Go straight for the big stick. By contrast, diplomacy looks
weak, like some tin-pot dictator from a nothing-burger country is pushing us
around. But in case anyone cares to notice, the world may be falling apart, but
Barack Obama has put together a
string of surprising diplomatic victories.
The
extension of the negotiating window with Iran came and went with little notice.
The nuclear freeze in Iran should be a big deal. Thanks to our negotiations and
economic sanctions, Iran has diluted its highly enriched uranium, agreed to
in-person inspections and video surveillance, and ceased work on its heavy
water plutonium reactor. But this progress is less well known than some state
secrets, a mystery not just to Americans at large but most political insiders
as well.
Another
recent—and oddly secret—diplomatic victory took place in Syria. Of course, with
Syria in the middle of a civil war, it looks like the country’s main export is
bad news. And when Obama leveraged Russia’s relationship with Syria to broker a
deal to get rid of the latter’s chemical weapons, Republicans said Vladimir Putin made Obama look weak.
A
funny thing happened on the way to the GOP’s deification of Putin: While
Syrians were busy shooting each other, the country’s last supplies of chemical
weapons—600
metric tons of it—left Syria on a Danish ship under the supervision of the Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. This is probably the best news
you’ve never heard.
The rest of Jason Stanford's column can be found in today's R&D Department.
By Jason Stanford
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August 1, 2014 8:10 AM
"This increased number of births will result in Medicaid expenditures increasing by around $250 million a year after HB 2 is fully implemented."
A
recent study
from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TPEP) at the University
of Texas reported that passage of House Bill 2 (HB2) by the Texas
Legislature in 2013 resulted in reducing abortions by 9,200. While some women may find out-of-state sites
to have an abortion, we should expect additional births in Texas. These additional births will have an impact
on state finances.
As
shown in Chart #1, more than 55 percent of the births in the state in 2010
were paid for by Medicaid. In fiscal
year 2010, the Medicaid program spent $2.6 billion to cover the delivery of
221,000 babies, at an average cost of $11,600, each.
By
projecting the proportion of births that will be covered by Medicaid and the
increase in delivery costs, one can derive an estimate of the impact HB 2 has
and will have on state finances. Should
the current trend continue, the proportion of births in the state covered by
Medicaid will be around 60 percent in 2014. Average cost per Medicaid beneficiary
increased by 5.4 percent per year between 2004 and 2010. Had this rate of increase continued, the
average cost per Medicaid covered birth in 2014 would be around $14,000 per
beneficiary.
The rest of column can be found in today's R&D Department
By Stuart Greenfield, Ph.D.
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July 31, 2014 11:53 AM
Homeland Security has no idea how much it spent on research and development, how its money should be spent and what was most effective.
WASHINGTON DC – A trio of US House committees held
a rapid-fire Capitol Hill hearing Thursday morning on technology use along
the border as lawmakers rushed to beat the deadline for the impending August
recess.
The use of technology on the border is a classic case of
multiple overlapping departments handling similar issues with no clear
long-term plan to embed technology into existing border security efforts. A
recent GAO report called research and development efforts of the Department
of Homeland Security “fragmented and overlapping,” said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who chairs
the Science,
Space and Technology committee and has strong interests in immigration
policy.
“Frankly, no one knows who’s in charge of research and
development or what the goal is,” said Smith in his opening
statement. “The GAO reports that the Science and Technology Directorate
lost touch with its end-users about what technologies and R&D should be a
priority.”
The idea that technology could make securing the border
easier and cheaper is alluring for policymakers. Witnesses agreed the progress
to create an integrated border security strategy has been woefully neglected,
even as the Department of Homeland Security has been launched and funded.
They also graded the use of technology along the border as “incomplete” for a
variety of reasons.
The rest of the story, subscribers only
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July 30, 2014 5:15 PM
In D.C., Tintera shares which energy /water policies can help
WASHINGTON
DC – More than 60 people attended an off-the-record briefing on sustainable
water management in the oil & gas industry at the Atlantic Council on
Monday, signaling the high level of interest around the best practices of managing
and recycling water in the red-hot sector of hydraulic fracturing operations.
Geologist
John Tintera,
former executive director of the Texas Railroad Commission and a current principal of Sebree
& Tintera, presented the Atlantic Council white paper, which he
called the result of state and federal stakeholder input to provide a summary
of potential best practices in water recycling that can apply both in the
national and international arenas. Tintera is also the president of the recently
formed Texas Water Recycling Association.
Few
topics are more volatile in Texas than water rights, even when it comes to the
profitable oil & gas boom. Texas has talked rights of capture and
groundwater districts, regional planning efforts and junior water rights, not
to mention a $2 billion state-wide water
plan approved by voters that still hangs in the balance.
Now
the energy industry has added a new level of complexity: a desire to use
brackish water in that layer below the groundwater table. Tintera also argues that
recycling and re-using produced water during hydraulic fracturing (fracking)
operations will take pressure off freshwater suppliers, be more ecologically
sensible and reduce the use of controversial wastewater disposal wells. The latter
have stirred public fears that they might have prompted a series of earthquakes
in the northern Texas town of Azle and elsewhere.
The rest of the story can be found in our sister publication, Texas Energy Report.
By Kimberly Reeves
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July 30, 2014 5:05 PM
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July 29, 2014 5:21 PM
"Texas has no legitimate interest, much less a compelling interest, in regulating issue advocacy."
Attorneys for the Texas
Home School Coalition filed a lawsuit against the Texas Ethics Commission this
past week in federal court in Lubbock, arguing that it’s unconstitutional for
the commission to try to regulate political spending by groups classified as 501(c)(4)’s
under the tax code. That, of course, would include the political activities of
Midland oilman Tim Dunn’s spokesman Michael Quinn Sullivan, the president
of Empower
Texans and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility.
Sullivan, as QR readers who have followed this are aware, has been
found guilty of lobbying without registering by the commission but the agency
has yet to address the complaint that he’s operating a political action
committee without making legally required disclosures. Attorneys for Sullivan
plan to appeal the ruling on the lobbying issue in court.
The Home School
Coalition’s lawyers say that "while Texas may be able to condition
political candidates' and political action committees' political activities on
compliance with burdensome requirements, it may not so condition the exercise
of First
Amendment rights by organizations whose major purpose is not campaign
advocacy, but who occasionally make independent expenditures on behalf of
candidates.'"
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July 29, 2014 4:27 PM
“This year’s accountability system will be a different ball game…”
The Texas Education Agency has dropped
the final piece of data into the upcoming accountability matrix, a matrix that
will differ significantly from last year.
State accountability ratings will be out on August 8,
followed shortly by federal accountability ratings. On Monday, TEA staff added scores
for campus and district targets on student progress and closing
achievement gaps. This gives most school districts some understanding today
of what labels their campuses and districts might meet: either met
standards or needs improvement.
If all this sounds confusing or vague, don’t worry. The
labels will change again. Under last session’s House Bill 5, the labels
for campuses again will revert to Exemplary, Recognized, Satisfactory and
Academically Unacceptable. Texas also will move to a yet-to-be-defined
system of an A-F rating system for school districts, a system touted by
former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education as being simpler and
more understandable to parents.
With guidance from Maria
Whitsett of Moak
Casey & Associates, here are some of the changes that will occur
under the four indices: student achievement; student progress;
closing performance gaps; and post-secondary readiness.
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July 29, 2014 2:19 PM
“The case is not about whether Texas should recognize same-sex marriage. It is about the question of who decides
Attorney General Greg
Abbott’s brief on same-sex marriage before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
invokes state rights with a strong dash of social conservatism that traditional
marriage is the best way to raise children.
Abbott opens his brief with a description of the 2005 vote
that amended the Texas Constitution to describe marriage as the union of one man
and one woman. He goes on to say that marriage is “rooted in the basic reality
of human life: procreation requires a male and a female.” Opposite-sex
marriages increase the likelihood of children being born into healthy, stable
relationships, Abbott argues.
Still, Abbott’s more frequent argument is that the right to
define marriage belongs to Texas and that the denial of same-sex marriage does
not violate due process rights. To allow the courts to reverse a state decision
only reinforces the idea that the courts can take away the constitutional
rights of the legislative process.
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July 29, 2014 2:10 PM
From the Right: QR’s conservative columnist Eric Bearse argues the best name the Democrats have on this year’s ballot is Jim Hogan because he’s the un-candidate: “If Hogan pulls this off, his campaign will be studied for decades. And Wendy Davis’ campaign will be studied for ten minutes.”
The
definition of conventional wisdom is that which has yet to be proven wrong. For
instance, conventional wisdom says a lot of Republicans will vote for Senator Leticia Van De Putte
for lieutenant governor because they dislike Dan Patrick. It is said to be conventional wisdom in Austin, which
means it was promulgated in a bar and made it to a blog. From there, it took a
life of its own; a meme that rings true until proven false. In other words,
until November.
Look, I know
some insiders will vote for Van De Putte. Some may
even call themselves Republicans. Or scoundrels. Or lobbyists. And this protest
vote will change the overall total by 0.0001 percent. In other words, she will
win Travis County even bigger. The problem is the other 253 counties.
And the sad
irony for Democrats is they have long assumed Hispanics will vote in large
numbers for Hispanic Democrats. Because that is just what Hispanics do. It’s
conventional wisdom. But what if her name is Belgian? Or Dutch? Or Flemish?
My name is
English. But I am most closely aligned with the Finns in terms of bloodlines.
Well, and Germans and the crazy Dutch too. But if I ever ran for office, I
would not win the Finnish colonies with a name like Bearse.
Too many vowels for the Finns. The Finns would stay home. I would lose.
The best
Democratic name on the ballot is not Davis,
Van De Putte or even Sam Houston (that sounds too much like one of those crackpots who
actually changed his name to be famous instead of making his name famous.) The
best name is Hogan. He is the
ultimate un-candidate. He is better than Cola. He is Un-Cola.
The complete column from Eric Bearse is in today's R&D Department.
By Eric Bearse
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July 29, 2014 1:13 PM
Government has no conclusive idea why costs are down
WASHINGTON DC – Projections the solvency of the Medicare
trust fund has been extended an additional four years elicited reactions from
experts that ranged from “cautious optimism to enthusiastic pessimism,”
according to the panel moderator of a discussion at the American Enterprise Institute
on Tuesday.
The 2014 Medicare
Trustees Report pushed the solvency of the Medicare trust fund from 2024 to
2030 in a single year, a fact that chief actuary Paul Spitalnic attributed to slower growth in claims and spending.
Even a fractional decrease in ratios between collections and spending, and the
ability to build additional modest assets, has significant impact on the fund’s
75-year horizon.
“This has changed the completion of the fund from 2026 to
2030, but it’s hard to look at this chart as wonderful news,” Spitalnic told an
audience at AEI. “It’s clearly better news than we had last year, but there’s
still clearly a problem with (Hospital Insurance Trust Fund) financing.”
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July 29, 2014 12:51 PM
Former Dewhurst health care policy expert to take reins of Texas Association of Health Plans
The Texas Association of Health Plans
on Tuesday announced that longtime health care advisor Jamie Dudensing is taking the reins as
the group's new CEO.
“We are elated to recruit
a leader with Jamie’s experience and integrity," said Holly Munin, President of the TAHP’s board. Dudensing was most
recently as deputy chief of staff and director of policy for Lt. Governor David Dewhurst.
Munin also thanked the outgoing CEO, David Gonzales. "David has been a vital part of our success
and he has gone the extra mile to ensure a smooth leadership transition,” she
said. “We're grateful for his time here and wish him the best.”
Here is the full announcement
from the TAHP.
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July 29, 2014 12:50 PM
Tells a crowd in Lubbock that leaving the HD 83 race is the best thing for his district as he sets his sights on the Texas Senate
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July 28, 2014 5:38 PM
Fall out from Gates-Carnegie project could lead to enhanced privacy protections ad ed goes higher tech
WASHINGTON
DC - Billionaire Bill Gates launched
the great $100 million ed tech startup experiment
known as inBloom with massive pomp and
circumstance at SXSWedu in Austin 2013,
touting it as a new tool to accelerate student achievement across the country.
The Gates
and Carnegie
foundations pledged a nine-figure commitment to scale up what once was known as
the Shared
Learning Collaborative. In its new non-profit incarnation, InBloom proposed to warehouse
data from school districts across the country in a massive cloud
repository, pushing massive information back to teachers in a uniform
dashboard.
Just
over a year later, CEO Iwan Streichenberger
was pulling the plug on inBloom after massive
missteps in states like Louisiana and New York, where parents were outraged
that hundreds of pieces of information, including Social Security numbers, were
being stored and used by a third-party vendor.
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July 28, 2014 4:40 PM
Recent developments suggest a pattern of deception
It would be difficult
enough to cover something as complex as a matter before the Texas
Ethics Commission if all sides were honest brokers about the
proceedings. The fact that they are not makes cutting through the noise that
much more of a challenge. Thankfully for those who tell the truth for a living,
sorting out fact from fiction becomes easier as more evidence becomes part of
the public record.
Steve Bresnen,
a longtime lobbyist and former aide to Lt Gov. Bob Bullock, on Monday sent to lawmakers a detailed update on the
case of Midland oilman Tim Dunn’s
spokesman Michael Quinn Sullivan and
his organization Empower Texans.
“My greatest fear—as a
citizen and professional advocate—is that lying threatens to replace honesty as
the currency of public discourse,” Bresnen said of the way Sullivan has
conducted himself throughout the proceedings before the TEC. “That’s why it’s
been a good week for Texas,” Bresnen said, pointing to the commission’s ruling
last week that Sullivan is indeed a professional lobbyist who has failed to
register. The commission fined Sullivan the maximum amount they were able to in
the case: $10,000.
Sullivan denies the charge
and an appeal in court has been promised by his legal team, which includes an
impressive number of attorneys for a citizen activist.
Among other things in his
update to lawmakers, Bresnen notes that when Sullivan appeared on NBC 5’s
Lone
Star Politics in Dallas/Fort Worth on July 20, he said he was not asked
by the TEC about whether he had destroyed email evidence. When asked specifically
if he had trashed emails that showed his alleged lobbying, he told Dallas
Morning News reporter Gromer Jeffers
"No."
One might safely assume
that if Jeffers had lawful subpoena power – the way the Texas Ethics Commission
does – Sullivan’s response would have been "On the advice of counsel, I'm
not going to be testifying today.” You can see his appearance on TV here. The questions about the case start at about 8:50 in
the video.
Sullivan said the
commission “never actually asked us about the emails. They never asked us about
policies. If they had, they would have found that we, like most businesses, have
an email retention program." Sullivan added that in a “real court,” the
emails would have been the subject of a line of questioning. Turns out,
however, that attorneys for the TEC did directly ask Sullivan about emails to
lawmakers during the formal hearing weeks before his television appearance.
Simply put: What Sullivan
said on TV does not comport with reality.
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July 28, 2014 3:11 PM
Aggressive schedule would include dates in major markets and The Valley
Note: This story has been updated with a response from
the Sen. Patrick campaign – SB
The race to preside over
the Texas
Senate come 2015 would include five debates across the state if the
Democratic nominee got her way. Sen. Leticia
Van de Putte, D-San Antonio on Monday proposed
debates in major markets as well as the Rio Grande Valley.
In a letter to the Dan
Patrick campaign obtained by QR, Van de Putte’s campaign manager Scott Remley asks that all of the debates
be simulcast in English and Spanish, social media be incorporated in each of
them, and that organizers "strive for a variety of venues and formats that
increase accessibility for all Texans."
The debates would be
scheduled as follows:
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July 28, 2014 11:00 AM
The possibility of a runoff grows in the Sept 9 special election
The race to succeed former Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock now includes four candidates with the addition
of former Rep. Delwin Jones. He announced his candidacy on
Monday morning. Rep. Charles Perry,
R-Lubbock is of course also in the running and as QR
has reported, Perry is undecided about whether to withdraw from his House race
in addition to seeking the Texas Senate seat vacated by Duncan
for the job of Texas Tech System Chancellor.
Lubbock Online reports:
"Jones joins Perry, former Tech (Vice) Chancellor Jodey Arrington, former Sweetwater mayor Greg Wortham
and Wolfforth resident Epifano Garza in the race to replace Duncan.
The race got more interesting last week when Gov. Rick Perry set the special election date for Sept. 9 instead
of Nov. 4, as most politicos assumed would be the case, giving contenders less
than two months to campaign. Thus far Arrington leads the fundraising race,
bringing in more than $200,000 in the first reporting period; Perry reported
raising $130,000 in the first six months of the year and having $195,000 in the
bank."
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July 26, 2014 11:40 AM
Fourteen years in House and Senate; McFarland was a gentleman in every sense of the word
The obituary with details of the arrangements can be found here.
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July 26, 2014 9:54 AM
Trial court had agreed story referencing Abraham was false but dismissed the case on other issues, now back to trial court
Daniel Greer and the AgendaWise crew lost an important legal
defense when the Seventh District Court of Appeals remanded the defamation case
brought against them by Salem Abraham back to district Court. The history of the case can be found below. Abraham is seeking damages.
Agendawise is another one
of the operations operated by Midland oil man Tim Dunn and his spokesman Michael
Quinn Sullivan both of whom sit on the board. This is the second adverse ruling against the pair. The Texas Ethics Commission ruled last
week that Sullivan had in fact acted as a lobbyist and failed to register as
required by law. Sullivan will appeal
Meanwhile,
Abraham told QR., “"For people
who like to talk a lot about the importance of truth, it is clear to me that
Daniel Greer and his puppet masters Tim Dunn and Michael Sullivan are
hypocrites and cowards who run and hide when the lies of the organization they
control are exposed. With this ruling, I am hopeful we can discover the
full extent of their lies and have them pay for the
damage they have done."
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July 25, 2014 5:20 PM
Most of the Texas delegation supportive
The
state’s largest teacher group has backed up a request for an additional year to
test the waters on the state’s new teacher accountability system, a key
provision of the federal government’s agreement to waive No Child Left Behind for
Texas.
Jennifer Canaday, ATPE Government Relations
Manager, said the Association for Texas Professional Educators began meeting with
the Texas delegation in June to discuss the one-year extension of the teacher
evaluation pilot. Twenty-two members of the Texas delegation signed the
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July 25, 2014 4:15 PM
Joins with Dan Flynn claiming legislative purview over gaming policy in state
The
Texas
Racing Commission has stirred up a firestorm by considering new rules
that would permit betting on “historical racing” in which folks use electronic
terminals to wager on historical races in which identifying information has
been removed. Many consider this a
possible loophole to expand gaming in Texas.
Rep. Dan Flynn
(Van)
first focused public attention on the agency’s actions when he sent a letter to
Attorney General Greg Abbott seeking
an opinion on whether the Texas Racing Commission has the authority to even
consider such rules.
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July 25, 2014 10:46 AM
Civil agency settlement did not resolve criminal allegations
In what should be a surprise to no one, Texans for Public Justice announced today that they filed a criminal felony complaint against Republican Attorney General nominee Ken Paxton for admittedly failing to register as an investment advisor.
In addition, the complaint says, "The Texas Securities Act prohibits a person from acting as an investment adviser representative for an investment firm in Texas unless the person is registered as a representative for that particular firm. The Texas Securities Act provides that any person who renders services as an investment advisor representative without being registered as required by the Act is guilty of a felony of the third degree."
The full complaint can be found here.
Both sides of the partisan divide have been concerned that Paxton faces criminal liability and would not be replacable on the ballot should he be indicted.
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July 25, 2014 9:29 AM
"The indictment alleges that from 2001-11, Nealy provided "concealed financial benefits" to Price totaling $950,231. The indictment refers to the funds as "a continuous stream of bribe payments."
The full Dallas Morning News story can be found here.
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July 25, 2014 7:37 AM
See the ad below
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