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June 23rd, 2014
Moms Demand Action is an anti gun organization that works to disarm law abiding moms and dads across the country.
June 23rd, 2014
Last week, I visited the VA Outpatient Clinics in Corpus Christi and Victoria to get the real story on wait times, quality of service, and other issues from local Veterans and VA staff.As you may have read, the Corpus...
June 21st, 2014
I released the following statement praising the passage of the FY2015 Defense Appropriations bill. The bill passed the House yesterday by a vote of 340-73.This bill promotes our national security and provides for our troops...
June 20th, 2014
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-New Hampshire, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and I have filed legislation to temporarily halt further transfers or releases for detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Following the controversial prisoner swap the...
June 19th, 2014
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security, and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee...
June 19th, 2014
First and foremost we have to do everything possible to make sure all Americans in Iraq are secure and not swept up in a Sunni-Shiite civil war. We have more than 2,000 people in the country, and given the volatility of the...
June 18th, 2014
Governor Rick Perry is working with Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to identify options that can immediately address the Texas border crisis. Earlier today Gov. Perry said Texas doesn’t have “the resources, nor the...
June 18th, 2014
Our elite Special Operations forces have located and captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Ahmed Abu Khattala was able to roam free for far too long, even conducting interviews with...
June 17th, 2014
On Thursday, June 19th, Texas State Representative Jason Villalba will host two town halls in House District 114. The first will take place at the Lake Highlands YMCA and the second will take place at the Town North YMCA....
June 17th, 2014
David Brat won a stunning and surprising victory in last week’s primary election in Virginia, unseating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). But Brat doesn’t seem to understand the very issue that seems to have...
June 23rd, 2014
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claimed that it “lost” two years’ worth of emails directly related to the agency’s targeting of law-abiding taxpayers. This is unbelievable. Old emails don’t disappear on their...
June 22nd, 2014
Last week, I spoke in the Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights hearing in opposition to the Democrats’ proposed constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment and restrict the...
June 20th, 2014
On Thursday I managed the rule on the House floor for the Customer Protection and End User Relief Act. This legislation would reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission while protecting end users like farmers,...
June 20th, 2014
Crisis: IRS emails have vaporized.Where, oh where have the emails gone? Where, oh, where can they be? In another Friday evening news dump, the administration announced that 2 years of Lois Lerner’s emails have vanished. Poof...
June 19th, 2014
This week, along with the Executive Board Members of the Immigration Reform Caucus (IRC), I sent a letter to President Obama calling on the Administration to immediately issue a public statement that the immigration laws of...
June 19th, 2014
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following statement for Juneteenth, June 19, 2014. Sens. Cornyn and Cruz are original cosponsors of a Senate resolution introduced by Sen. Carl Levin, D-MI...
June 18th, 2014
Last week, the House Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations bill. The bill funds critical national security needs, military operations abroad, and quality-of-life programs for...
June 18th, 2014
The Texas-shaped confetti has been swept up, the rally signs packed up, and the thunder sticks tucked away as the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) has wrapped up another colorful convention in Ft. Worth. Along with the...
June 17th, 2014
On June 2nd, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a regulation establishing CO2 emission guidelines, better known as cap-and-trade. This is such a bad policy President Obama could even get it passed when the...
June 17th, 2014
As a former small business owner, I understand the difficulties of long-term planning. That’s why I voted last week for a bill to provide more certainty in the U.S. tax code. America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014...
