Texas GOP Vote

In socialist France, you can actually pay taxes MORE than you earn.

More than 8,000 French households found this out the hard way as their tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, citing Finance Ministry data.   Read more »

“You’ve grown up hearing voices…warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices…Because what they suggest is that we can’t be trusted.”

–President Barack Obama, May 6, 2013

Over the last two weeks, an unprecedented abuse of power has illustrated the lawless nature of the Obama Administration. They have ignored the law, the Constitution, and Congress, and have engaged in behavior for which President Nixon faced articles of impeachment. The American people deserve full accountability

The 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas still has a couple of weeks to go, and it ain’t over ’till both the House and Senate are sine die, but it appears that SB 303 did die over the weekend.

Representative Susan King, who broke her leg last Sunday, just the day before the marathon meeting of the House Public Health Committee, has done an incredible job of working with Senator (Dr.) Bob Duell in their attempt to reform our State’s Advance Directive Act through SB 303.   Read more »

During the 2011 Legislative Session, a new law was passed with good intentions but with a devastating unintended consequence.  The new law prohibiting the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) from issuing a Driver's License to anyone who could not prove their legal immigration status in the U.S. created perhaps a million unlicensed and uninsured drivers on our roadways. This led to increased hit and run accidents, increased police chases and increases in Texan's uninsured motorists rates.   Read more »

On the last day of the 2013 NRA Annual Meeting, I had the opportunity to sit down with board member Grover Norquist to discuss the NRA Board and the politics related to the 2nd Amendment. Norquist explained the makeup of the NRA Board and the roles the various people in the board play. We then went on to talk about the current political climate related to guns and the real issues related to gun violence. It's not the hardware, it is the behavior of people we should be trying to control.   Read more »

The White House released 100 pages of Benghazi-related e-mails this week that made it clear that the Obama Administration has misled the American people about the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist attack in Benghazi. The House currently has five standing committees investigating the events preceding and immediately following the attacks, which left four Americans dead. These committees are attempting to discern why the Administration ignored

The following press release was sent out by the NRA's Institute for Legislative Affairs:

As we reported last month, on April 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 153-4 to pass the Arms Trade Treaty, with the United States voting in favor and several countries abstaining. The vote in the General Assembly pushed the treaty process forward after negotiations twice failed to deliver on the goal of developing the treaty by consensus. The Obama Administration is expected to sign the treaty soon after it is opened for signature on June 3.   Read more »

An umbrella can tell a lot about his character.

There are those who will weather the storm. Then there are those who manage their own storms. Finally there are those want the umbrella held for them.   Read more »

This week, I introduced H.R. 1962, the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013. This bill will protect reporters from being compelled to reveal their confidential news sources in federal court proceedings. Specifically, the bill would maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media.   Read more »

Another Kermit Gosnell? Another abortionist accused of aborting late term pregnancies and babies born alive? Unfortunately, it is true and it happens more than people think. Finally these murders are being uncovered. A Texas abortion doctor, Douglas Karpen, is accused of murdering babies AFTER Birth. He sometimes even twisted their heads off. An investigation by operation rescue has found several witnesses who even have PICTURE EVIDENCE of the gruesome murders of near full term babies born alive at a Houston, TX abortion clinic. Read more about the murder allegations against this Houston, TX abortionist including pictures and video here.

Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (Texas-R) spoke out on the Senate floor in favor of an investigation