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August 21st, 2015
Today I announced a Committee request for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy to testify at an upcoming hearing on the agency’s role in the Animas River spill.
August 20th, 2015
I made the following statement based upon the recent release of the Employment Situation Report for July 2015 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which reported an increase of 215,000 nonfarm payroll jobs (210,000 in...
August 20th, 2015
Now that a plan to slash state funding for a therapy program for severely disabled children has become better known, a growing number of Republicans – including the Texas Senate's Transportation Committee Chairman and a key...
August 19th, 2015
The white-haired, bespectacled octogenarian and retired director of Palmyra’s antiquities and museum was beheaded Tuesday in a main square of the modern-day Syrian city of Tadmur adjoining the ruins, according to a...
August 19th, 2015
As we debate the Iranian deal, a secondary point that needs to be made by Republicans running for the president is how Obama lost Iraq.
August 18th, 2015
A major test for Obama’s Department of Justice is upon us since we have a Presidential candidate who is favored to win her nomination, and there is enough evidence that has enough fire to score at least one indictment. Obama...
August 18th, 2015
I’m still a little astonished that one with no past or current demonstrated fidelity to constitutional/conservative principle is making such noise as a Republican presidential prospect. But clearly Donald Trump is mainly...
August 17th, 2015
Last week, more than two hundred veterans attended my annual Veterans Summit in Corpus Christi to learn about services and assistance available to them. Our community is military- and veterans- friendly, as evidenced by the...
August 17th, 2015
Texas is sending fifty-two new Department of Public Safety troopers to the Texas/Mexico border region. The new troopers are part of the State’s efforts to beef up border security by providing more permanent law enforcement...
August 16th, 2015
Please join me next Thursday, August 20, for the 3rd Annual "Honor our Heroes" event from 6:00-7:30 pm at the Trini Mendenhall Center in Houston. All are welcome! This gathering pays tribute to past, present and future...
August 21st, 2015
Court Documents reveal that Subway’s Jared Fogle used his kid’s health foundation to help in the creation of child pornography. Fogle admitted to working with his Fogle Foundation President Russell Taylor who is alleged to...
August 20th, 2015
It took a while, but the first Atlantic hurricane of the year has arrived. A relatively compact Danny strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane on Thursday morning, still more than 1,000 miles east of the eastern Caribbean...
August 20th, 2015
The countdown to Blue Bell Ice Cream has begun. Blue Bell Creameries announced on Monday, a 5-phase plan to put its ice cream back on store shelves beginning on Monday, August 31. Phase 1 brings Blue Bell home to its roots...
August 19th, 2015
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lied to the American people about classified emails on her server. Last week, the Inspector General for U.S. Intelligence Agencies reported to Congress the discovery of two...
August 19th, 2015
Tuesday I released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans for new regulations restricting methane emissions. The proposed rule would impose costly new restrictions on oil and...
August 18th, 2015
Ted Cruz’s A Time for Truth, Reigniting the Miracle of America was published on June 30th, and within one week had sold almost 12,000 copies. My book arrived on July 6 and I'm looking forward for Ted to sign my book...
August 18th, 2015
Last August, President Obama signed a bill into law creating the State Department position of Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia. It’s been over a year...
August 17th, 2015
Some of his proposals are based on assertions that have been broadly debunked. He portrayed undocumented Mexican immigrants as uneducated criminals who have been living off “hundreds of billions” of American taxpayer dollars...
August 17th, 2015
Victoria and the entire Crossroads area is still enjoying relatively good economic times despite the slump in the oil and gas industry. I was the featured speaker at the regular Tuesday morning meeting hosted by the Victoria...
August 15th, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was midway through his speech at the Iowa State Fair’s “soapbox” stage when a helicopter buzzed overhead. “There’s Donald Trump,” said Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent. “I...
