Government Overreach

EPA
The Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extreme anti-energy policies and unchecked regulations have stifled economic opportunities, raised costs for Americans, burdened businesses and domestic energy...
capitol
President Biden is abusing his power and circumventing Congress to enact his radical agenda. In his first year alone, President Biden finalized new regulations adding more than $200 billion in new costs to the American...
brain health
After the Biden Administration’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced its decision to severely restrict coverage of an FDA-approved Alzheimer’s drug – despite repeated and 
The truth is finally coming out on the Russia Influence Fiction. And now the investigative focus turns to where it should have been all along, toward how this “fraudulent issue” was started, by whom, and why.
The Office of Financial Research is another example of unnecessary government overreach that not only serves as a drain on American taxpayer dollars but also is harmful to hardworking Americans and small business owners....
At bottom, it comes down essentially to whether we place primacy on the individual or on the collective. I place it on the individual, though it might seem selfish and undemocratic not to place primacy on the collective or...
The latest revelations about U.S. government’s powerful hacking tools potentially takes surveillance right into the homes and hip pockets of billions of users worldwide, showing how a remarkable variety of every day devices...
Since the start of the new Congress, the Senate has been rolling back some of the more than 22,000 rules and regulations issued during the Obama Administration.
Hello, my pretties!  Welcome back to TexasGOPVote on the flip side of quite possibly the craziest election season EVER!  I worked this election harder than I have ever worked one before.  I knocked on doors and phone banked...
This summer, a Vietnam Veteran who posted on Facebook about the problems he was having with the VA contacted my office for help. After a loss of mobility, this veteran’s doctor ordered a wheelchair for him, but he had not...
It's hard to believe, but in a time when Americans are struggling to afford groceries, the Biden Administration is implementing new rules to take away their stovetops and ovens.
On Tuesday, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), founder and chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, and I, and 20 of our colleagues demanded DOJ answer for the FBI’s raid of pro-life activist Mark Houck’s home using an “excessive level...
scale of justice
The block organizer is doing, and has been doing, what he is most capable of doing: creating havoc by organizing resistance groups to commit violence, threaten Rule of Law. There is no place for this and no attorney should...
This crucial legislation will rein in bureaucratic overreach by the federal government, and allow insurance regulation to be centered in the states. I am proud to lead this effort with Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith and Jim...
I introduced the Saving America’s Vulnerable and Endangered Species (SAVES) Act, which would remove regulatory burdens for ranchers and conservators engaged in captive breeding of exotic wildlife, while promoting animal...
The potential use of eminent domain authority is at the heart of a controversy over a proposed bullet train that would connect Dallas and Houston.
Every year, federal agencies roll out thousands of new regulations that hold the weight of law and cost taxpayers millions of dollars. We have seen this time and time again with the Department of Labor Overtime Rule, the...
One of the challenges government faces is applying century’s old legal concepts, like the Fourth Amendment, to rapidly changing technology. This week, the House will be voting to pass the Email Privacy Act, which passed 419-...
It has been said that discretion is the better part of valor, but when it comes to judicial discretion, how much latitude is appropriate?  Let's take  attorneys' fee schedules regarding indigent defense, for...
The truth is the implementation and the reality of Obamacare has been nothing short of a disaster for many of the people that I represent in Texas, but it's not limited to the 27 million people or so who live in Texas.

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