Texas GOP Vote

Today’s dismal forecast from the non-partisan CBO underscores the need for the Obama Administration and Washington Democrats to join House Republicans’ efforts to replace the looming defense cuts and stop the tax hike. My colleagues in the House and I have already passed legislation to stop the job-destroying tax increase set to take effect in January and to replace the sequester with common-sense reforms and spending cuts.   Read more »

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Recent revelations about ObamaCare’s slush funds are shocking even by Democrats’ standards. Taxpayer-funded grants under the government takeover of healthcare were apparently paying for “urban gardening” projects and bike clubs:

CITY OF BOSTON GETS $1 MILLION TO SPEND ON “URBAN GARDENING”: (Press Release, “EXAM ROOM: ObamaCare Funnels Taxpayer Dollars to Grant Program that Funds Pet

This past week, I had the opportunity to visit the Taco Bueno Headquarters in Dallas to learn more about the company and also how federal laws impact it. Taco Bueno has over 3,000 employees nationwide and the majority of those employees are in the state of Texas.

Taco Bueno, like many American companies, has already felt the negative impact of the Durbin amendment of the Dodd-Frank bill, a 2,300 page financial overhaul that brought forth an explosion

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Congressional Budget Office last week released a new study on the economic effects of the stimulus and arrived at a conclusion that Americans know all too well: that far from strengthening the economy, the Democrats’ stimulus spending spree will actually harm long-term growth:   Read more »

The recent debate about the super committee shows what the real debate is about, namely tax rates matter, or should matter. The GOP-proposed compromise has caused much apprehension among many Republicans and conservative since it may represent an overall tax increase, but what is missing is that the GOP plan is the beginning of a serious tax reform by lowering the overall tax rates.   Read more »

The Senate, yesterday, passed my amendment to the current financial regulatory reform bill that protects U.S. taxpayers from paying for bailouts of irresponsible foreign governments.   Read more »

In college I was a fierce Texas hold 'em player. Still it wasn't at the tables that I learned one of life's greatest lessons, that a loaded gun beats a full house any day. Political warfare has positioned conservatives with a royal flush since we can point back to our Founding Fathers, the Constitution, history and how the American way has led to our rise as the alpha country in the world.   Read more »

Remember last year when the health care drive was being whipped up and the president was preaching his justifications and objectives for reform? Let’s look at those:   Read more »

I issued this statement today following the Democrats’ leak of the unsubstantiated Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of their health care bill:   Read more »