Texas GOP Vote

Texas is expanding with high paying jobs and leading America in entrepreneurship while California continues its nosedive. Texas, depending upon less taxes, common-sense regulation and encouragement of entrepreneurship, has grown whereas California is falling further behind with bankruptcy just around the corner. Here is the kicker, California could be as wealthy as Texas and be able to raise enough revenues to wet the appetite of any California politicians.   Read more »

Yesterday on the House Floor, I highlighted my Expedited LNG for American Allies Act. The bill, which is the House companion to bipartisan legislation introduced by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), seeks to help strengthen our strategic partnerships with key allies, reduce the trade deficit and boost job growth right here at home by streamlining the regulatory process to export natural gas to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries, Japan and others. This bill is a modified version of the LNG for NATO Act, originally authored by Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) and which I introduced as the House companion bill in the 112th Congress.

There is good news about energy. We have untapped natural resources here at home. In the United States, we have natural gas that can be turned into liquefied natural gas. Other nations don't have this. We have so much natural gas that we can export it by selling it as liquefied natural gas. Not only will exporting liquefied natural gas bring money and energy back home, it will create jobs. This means jobs and capital for Americans and American companies.

Even the Department of Energy says that expanded export of liquefied natural gas will benefit the United States economy.

Texas Representative J.M. Lozano is not a new face in the House of Representatives, but he is a new face as a Republican State Representative. Lozano, who was a conservative, blue dog Democrat, changed parties last year, and in the interview below, you can hear why. I was very impressed with his story.   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.

A new report indicates that fracking, a drilling technique used to access natural gas and oil, supports millions of American jobs:   Read more »

An interesting thing happened in the world of Texas politics this week. It is pretty rare for a sitting Congressman to make an endorsement of a candidate for Congress in a contested race in the Republican Primary. In the race for CD14, candidate Felicia Harris has pulled off not one such endorsement, but two! I have been watching this race to replace the retiring Ron Paul in the US House of Representatives with some interest for several months. This announcement caught my attention and should cause you to take notice as well if you live in CD14.   Read more »

It is often said that the general election is won by claiming the middle, and the GOP can grab the center of the political core. Take economics as the Democrats depend upon the Buffet rule to take mantle of sticking up for the little guy. Obamanomics is finished as a believable set of economic principles as Obama's lack of ability to get even one vote for his recent budget shows even Democrats won’t defend it. (The Democratic-controlled Senate hasn't even bothered to pass a budget for the past three years.)   Read more »

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and 31 Republican Senators today outlined steps to President Obama that he could take immediately to lower prices for Americans at the pump. In a letter with fellow Senate Republicans, Sen. Cornyn called on President Obama to end the Permatorium on drilling in the Gulf and Outer Continental Shelf, eliminate burdensome, job-killing regulations, and sign off on the Keystone XL pipeline:   Read more »

The Terminator series shows how both Sarah and John Connor attempts to stop Armageddon as Connor sent others to travel back into history to affect the future. The series makes the premise that maybe the future can be changed, but yet in the end, doomsday occurs, and we are never sure if the future can be changed. In Terminator 2, one is given the impression that the future can be changed and disaster averted, but the conclusion of the third Terminator Series dispels that notion as doomsday does happen.

The big question that is being asked, is decline a choice or inevitable? Can we change our destiny or will our fate be just another nation among nations

Address by Chairman Tom Pauken at the Texas Farm Bureau Summer Commodity Conference in San Marcos July 7, 2011:

Let me first begin by expressing my appreciation to the Texas Farm Bureau for all of the fine work your organization does in representing the views of Texas farmers and ranchers. In particular, I applaud your steadfast support of private property rights. The protection and security of private property is one of the bedrock principles of our political freedom, and it is central to our nation’s economic prosperity. Just compare the abundance of food available here in the U.S. to the dismal condition of agriculture under Communism in the former Soviet Union