Voting Resources
Family
Republicans must come together to stand for policies that strengthen the core of society: The traditional family. Marriage must be protected. Life must be respected. Liberals suggest the policies we embrace are “divisive wedge issues,” but they could not be more wrong. Policies that strengthen the family are essential to a GOP that keeps its core conservative principles.
February 22nd, 2019
Human trafficking is the barbaric practice of profiting in people, a form of slavery we assumed had been assigned to the ash heap of history. Sadly, today nearly 25 million people around the world are victims of trafficking...
February 21st, 2019
The wait is over for the wishy-washy politicians and other Leftists who needed to “wait and see all the evidence”. Chicago PD officially charged Jussie Smollett.
February 12th, 2019
This past week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 840, the Veterans' Access to Child Care Act.
February 6th, 2019
Hurricane Harvey was the most economically destructive hurricane in Texas history and the second-most expensive hurricane in American history.
January 31st, 2019
I recently issued the following statement highlighting the importance of putting an end to human trafficking, which continues in Texas, and across the nation in honor of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention...
January 29th, 2019
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, I questioned a panel of expert witnesses on drug pricing in America. Excerpts from my line of questioning are below:
January 22nd, 2019
A little more than a decade ago, Texas prisons were bursting at the seams, a problem only exacerbated by the fact that the majority of those released from prison eventually returned.
January 21st, 2019
It is unbelievable the number of times over the past few months that an event or statement has required me to remind people that racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism and misogyny have no place in our country. It is unfortunate...
January 18th, 2019
This week, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and I introduced the Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act (S. 169), which would exempt civil damages, restitution, and other monetary...
January 16th, 2019
The rumor mill is hard at work, but you can't believe everything you hear.
February 22nd, 2019
Last week I introduced the George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush Coin Act to authorize the immediate issuance of coins honoring President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush.
February 20th, 2019
A Texas mom says anti-Trump border wall activists called her seven-year-old son “Hitler” because he set up a hot chocolate stand to raise money for the project. The boy said he wanted to help the president after he listened...
February 6th, 2019
Too few Houstonians are vaccinated against measles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
February 5th, 2019
I congratulated D’Anne Emmett Spence of Huntsville, Texas, as she was promoted to the rank of Colonel of the United States Air Force, and invited her to be his guest at the State of the Union Address.
January 30th, 2019
Chicago was as cold as the Arctic with a low temperature of around minus 23 degrees, and Minneapolis reached minus 27. See winter weather photos from those cities and other locales in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday...
January 29th, 2019
Four police officers were shot and another officer sustained a knee injury while serving a warrant late Monday afternoon in southeast Houston.
January 21st, 2019
This Martin Luther King Day, may we unite as a nation to reflect on the legacy Reverend King forged in the most turbulent of times. In the face of racial inequality and injustice, Rev. King devoted his life to preaching a...
January 18th, 2019
A security camera outside a flower shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shows the shocking image of an alleged burglar who brought a little girl along as he attempts a break-in. The effort apparently fails.
January 17th, 2019
Mark Twain famously quipped, “No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."1
January 15th, 2019
This government shutdown is unnecessary.
