Texas GOP Vote

I'd like to share with you a clip of my appearance last Friday on Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel. In it, I discuss fiscal responsibility and the need for the federal government to stop its spending spree of borrowed money.  Read more »

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) announced that Director Michael R. Bromwich will hold the next two events in a series of fact-finding forums in Houston, Texas and Biloxi, Miss. the week of September 6, 2010.  Read more »

This liberal Congress has turned a deaf ear to the people that they were sent to Washington to represent. As American families across the country cut spending and pay off debt, this Congress is passing massive new entitlement programs and piling up record levels of debt. Americans are rightfully asking the question “why won’t Washington listen?”  Read more »

I recently appeared on C-SPAN to discuss the creation of the new Tenth Amendment Task Force by a group of conservative House Republicans. View my appearance on C-SPAN below:  Read more »

The emails from the Climatic Research Unit at Britain’s University of East Anglia call into question the integrity of scientific data on climate change. As a result, other House Members and I sent a letter to five Inspectors General urging them to investigate the matter.

Dear Inspector Generals,  Read more »

After the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, I joined several colleagues in sending a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller requesting clarification on reports that the FBI stopped investigating Nidal Malik Hasan despite his comments, postings, and contact with radical Islamist groups.

Dear Director Mueller:  Read more »