May 21st, 2013
You know things are bad for an Administration when members of their own party come out against them. Well that’s exactly what happened to the Obama Administration last week. They can no longer hide from the problems that...
May 20th, 2013
“You’ve grown up hearing voices…warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices…Because what they suggest is that we can’t be trusted.”–President Barack Obama, May 6,...
May 19th, 2013
During the 2011 Legislative Session, a new law was passed with good intentions but with a devastating unintended consequence. The new law prohibiting the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) from issuing a Driver's...
May 18th, 2013
The White House released 100 pages of Benghazi-related e-mails this week that made it clear that the Obama Administration has misled the American people about the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist attack in Benghazi. The House...
May 17th, 2013
An umbrella can tell a lot about his character.There are those who will weather the storm. Then there are those who manage their own storms. Finally there are those want the umbrella held for them.
May 17th, 2013
Another Kermit Gosnell? Another abortionist accused of aborting late term pregnancies and babies born alive? Unfortunately, it is true and it happens more than people think. Finally these murders are being uncovered. A Texas...
May 16th, 2013
The events that have unfolded over the past week are showing big government at its worst. First we learned more details about the Obama administration’s coordinated attempt to misrepresent the September 2012 terrorist attack...
May 16th, 2013
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, I questioned Attorney General Eric Holder about the Justice Department’s investigation into allegations that IRS employees intentionally targeted conservative organizations,...
May 15th, 2013
Congressman Ted Poe co-sponsored H.R. 180, the National Blue Alert Act of 2013, a bipartisan bill that would implement a national “Blue Alert” system throughout the United States in order to properly and promptly disseminate...
May 15th, 2013
Earlier this week, TexasGOPVote reported on the attacks on King Street Patriots and True the Vote by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies under what appears to be a high level coordinated effort to harass...
May 20th, 2013
In socialist France, you can actually pay taxes MORE than you earn.More than 8,000 French households found this out the hard way as their tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper...
May 20th, 2013
The 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas still has a couple of weeks to go, and it ain’t over ’till both the House and Senate are sine die, but it appears that SB 303 did die over the weekend.Representative Susan King, who...
May 19th, 2013
On the last day of the 2013 NRA Annual Meeting, I had the opportunity to sit down with board member Grover Norquist to discuss the NRA Board and the politics related to the 2nd Amendment. Norquist explained the makeup of the...
May 18th, 2013
The following press release was sent out by the NRA's Institute for Legislative Affairs:As we reported last month, on April 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 153-4 to pass the Arms Trade Treaty, with the United...
May 17th, 2013
This week, I introduced H.R. 1962, the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013. This bill will protect reporters from being compelled to reveal their confidential news sources in federal court proceedings. Specifically, the...
May 17th, 2013
If we can still believe scientific journals, Cell reports in the June 6, 2013 issue indicate that scientists have succeeded in cloning human embryos.The term used for cloning by the group is "reprogramming" fibroblasts...
May 16th, 2013
Note: I’ve heard that there’s a new Committee Substitute that will soon be introduced that is more explicit on DNR’s, especially on informed consent and on competent patients.If laws demand that physicians perform acts...
May 16th, 2013
Think about the things that Texas is known for. Oil, trucks, cowboys, cows and big city life. Also, a gun loving governor and a booming economy. Oh, yeah and the myth that everything is bigger in Texas, right? We've got...
May 15th, 2013
The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA) recently published a paper analyzing President Obama’s proposed FY 2014 budget. TSCPA began its non-partisan analysis by quoting from the President’s budget message...
May 15th, 2013
Things are only getting worse for the Administration, but that's what they should expect when intentionally misleading the American people. Scandal after scandal is coming to light, and today Attorney General Eric Holder is...