Chairwoman Huffman and Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to address you today. My name is Selene Rodriguez, and I am a policy director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Secure & Sovereign Frontier campaign. I testify in support of Senate Bill 6, which would appropriate roughly $1.5 billion to the Trusted...
Texas made headlines this weekend after the State Board of Education (SBOE) rejected efforts to villainize oil and gas in textbooks used by our public schools. In the Lone Star State, education and fossil fuels have a symbiotic relationship. Nearly all—99%—of the state’s oil and gas royalties are deposited in the Permanent School Fund and...
Chairman Hunter, Vice Chair Hernandez, and Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support of HB 4, which would create a state offense for entering or re-entering Texas illegally from a foreign nation and allow a magistrate or judge to order illegal immigrants to return to the foreign nation they...