Voting Resources
Family
Republicans must come together to stand for policies that strengthen the core of society: The traditional family. Marriage must be protected. Life must be respected. Liberals suggest the policies we embrace are “divisive wedge issues,” but they could not be more wrong. Policies that strengthen the family are essential to a GOP that keeps its core conservative principles.
January 29th, 2016
A Texas man who was convicted of killing a Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Warden was executed Wednesday evening in Huntsville, Texas. This was the second execution carried out in the state of Texas this year and the second in...
January 26th, 2016
An imposing equestrian statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dominated the room where Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on Monday. But Rouhani could not admire some of the other...
January 25th, 2016
I released the following statement after reintroducing S. 929, the Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act, which would impose sanctions and travel restrictions on Vietnamese nationals who are complicit in human rights abuses...
January 21st, 2016
Communities on the East Coast braced Thursday for what could be the winter's biggest storm yet -- or could peter out, depending on how the system moves and where you are.
About 75 million people are in the storm's path,...
January 20th, 2016
The first presidential debate of 2016 sponsored by Fox Business on January 15 held in South Carolina ended the ‘love affair’ between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. There were two exchanges between the two top candidates that...
January 18th, 2016
Members of the Harris County Sheriff Department’s Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) discovered that a homeless man allegedly carrying a fake ID card was actually wanted for two charges of indecency with a child and another felony...
January 15th, 2016
Two Marine helicopters collided off the northern coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. There are no immediate signs of survivors. A search is ongoing following the collision of the two CH-53 helicopters, Capt. Philip...
January 13th, 2016
The great World War II was at its peak. So, on September 11, 1943, 28-year-old Sandy Thompson left her teaching job and volunteered for the Women Airforce Service Pilots, better known as the WASP.
January 8th, 2016
A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper has surrendered to authorities on the single misdemeanor charge of perjury related to the arrest and subsequent in-custody suicide of Sandra Bland.
January 6th, 2016
One of the many challenges facing the Department of Veterans Affairs in Texas is a shortage of primary care physicians and specialty care providers. Because of this, the VA has alternatives for veterans needing care...
January 28th, 2016
I issued the following statement after the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), released a report outlining the inadequate screening process through which unaccompanied children...
January 26th, 2016
In my time representing Texas, I’ve found that bringing proven solutions from our state to Washington has a positive impact on the entire nation. So when considering how to fix our broken mental health system, it only made...
January 23rd, 2016
Almost 36 hours after snow began, the end is here for some, and it’s coming for others. While radar still indicates some light snow is over parts of the region, any additional accumulation at this point is very small.
January 21st, 2016
An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for helping Aryan Brotherhood gang members use a hot knife to remove the tattoo of a former gang member.
January 19th, 2016
Iraq witnessed a sharp increase in civilian deaths following the fall of large swaths of territory to the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014. Now despite a string of recent battlefield losses for IS, civilians in Iraq...
January 14th, 2016
"It just seems out of character for someone who portrays himself as being so righteous," Brown said.
January 12th, 2016
Texas Governor Greg Abbott turned the Governor’s Mansion blue on Saturday night, but not the way Democrats had hoped in 2014. The Texas governor flooded his official residence with blue floodlights in support of law...
January 7th, 2016
Wednesday the House voted for H.R. 3762, Restoring American’s Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act. Almost six years after ObamaCare was rammed through Congress, 52 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’...
January 2nd, 2016
My thoughts and prayers are with all North Texas families who have been affected by the tornadoes last weekend. On Monday I met with the mayors of Garland and Rowlett, Mayor Doug Athas and Mayor Todd Gottel, to get an update...
