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31 Jan 2010, 3:22 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry, who signed the surcharge legislation into law, remains a backer of the program despite its troubles. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 1:22 pm by LindaMBeale
  Consumption taxes are regressive, and most proposals from the right--including Herman Cain's three step progress, with 9-9-9 as the midpoint, towards a national retail sales tax, and Rick Perry's proposal for an 'option' of a 20% national sales tax--simply will make the rich richer and the poor poorer. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 5:33 am
Rick Perry, said the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles was considering the case and the governor would most likely make his decision based on its recommendation on Tuesday. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 3:07 am by Bob Kraft
Rick Perry and his friends in the special interest lobby continue defending a lobbyist-driven health care battle from a decade ago that has failed Texas patients. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 9:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Whether it’s strategy formulation, border crime-mapping, operations management, or public relations, ALIS and its team of consultants have been closely involved in creating what Governor Rick Perry calls the “Texas model of border security. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 6:31 am by Steve Hall
  The letter was sent to Governor Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott and Gray County District Attorney Lynn Switzer. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 7:27 am by Steve Hall
Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott and Harris County District Attorney Patricia Lykos to halt the execution. [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 6:12 pm
The decline in new death sentences is particularlynoteworthy in Harris County.One person who was not executed as scheduled was Kenneth Foster, whosesentence was commuted to life in prison by Governor Rick Perry upon hisreceipt of a rare recommendation for clemency from the Texas Board ofPardons and Paroles. [read post]
10 Jan 2010, 7:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Since becoming President, Barack Obama has issued more pardons to Thanksgiving turkeys than to ex-offenders.As Texas Governor, Rick Perry has not completely sidelined his pardon power, but he has used it quite sparingly and refused to offer clemency to the majority of offenders for whom the Board of Pardons and Parole recommended it during his tenure. [read post]
3 Oct 2009, 7:25 am
The fifth circuit court of appeals turned down the penultimate appeal of British grandmother Linda Carty, which means she has only the supreme court and Governor Rick Perry between her and an encounter with the executioner.As to whether she should even have been convicted, the court found it a "close case", but the verdict was good enough for government work. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 9:31 am
Rick Perry has the power to accept or deny the recommendation. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 1:30 pm by Shawn Garrison
In 2011, Presidential candidates Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum signed a pledge from the Family Leader, a conservative organization in Iowa, that recommended cooling off periods for people seeking divorce. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 1:26 pm by John Floyd
They include: Tom Price, Health and Human Services secretary; David Shulkin, Veterans Affairs secretary; Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency secretary; Ron Zinke, Interior Affairs secretary; Steven Mnuchin, Treasury secretary; Wilbur Ross, Commerce secretary, Ben Carson, Housing and Urban Development secretary; and Rick Perry, Energy secretary. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 11:09 am by Kent Scheidegger
Rick Perry of Texas favors term limits for Supreme Court justices. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 12:36 pm by Eva Arevuo
And this also goes some way to explaining why Conservative candidates like Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann (before she dropped out) planned to go straight to the more conservative South Carolina. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 6:20 am by James Bickford
Office of Personnel Management and Perry v. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 8:01 am by Steve Hall
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles — both in the uncommon position of making a decision with international impact — should commute or postpone the death sentence of Humberto Leal, a Mexican raised in Texas, scheduled to die July 7 for the 1994 murder of Adria Sauceda, 16, in Bexar County. [read post]