Texas Comptroller Susan Combs

Innovation, Reform, Accountability for All Texans

For more than two decades, Susan Combs has been committed to creating innovative and practical solutions across many sectors and levels of government, making it easier for taxpayers and citizens to access and understand their government.

She has also successfully worked to provide citizens with information and tools to empower them to more directly participate in their government. She has opened state and local spending to unprecedented taxpayer scrutiny and demanded financial accountability across all levels of government. Within her own agency, she has saved more than $12 million by streamlining processes and identifying efficiencies. Since she took office in 2007, Susan has also returned over $1 billion in unclaimed property to its rightful owners.

In addition, Susan has spent more than twenty years fighting for landowners, passing landmark private property rights legislation in Texas and creating innovative solutions to challenge federal overreach on private lands, while protecting our natural resources and ensuring the state's economy continues to thrive.

From her work as a former assistant District Attorney handling child abuse cases to her efforts to reform childhood nutrition policies and protect children’s identities, Susan has worked hard to protect the welfare of our children – our state’s future.

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Caption: Susan receiving the first-ever Trailblazer for Transparency award from Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Texas. Pictured with Peggy Venable, Texas Policy Director and Senior States Policy Advisor.

Susan receiving the first-ever Trailblazer for Transparency award from Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Texas. Pictured with Peggy Venable, Texas Policy Director and Senior States Policy Advisor.

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Renaissance needed in state education model

July 23, 2014

Houston Chronicle

Susan Combs and Harrison Keller

In an information-driven society, nothing is more important to our long-term economic success than a well-educated, well-trained workforce.

If Texas is to continue its astonishing economic growth, we need to set high expectations for our public schools, workforce training, colleges and universities — and make sure we meet them, consistently, for all Texans.

It is important to honor the progress Texas students and schools have made.