Government
Put simply: We are for limited government that works. At TexasGOPVote, we will work as a watchdog to help our state lawmakers and our congressional delegation pull in the reins on unnecessary spending and government bureaucracy. You better believe we’ll expose politicians who seek to act outside the bounds set by the Forefathers in the Constitutions of Texas and the United States.
August 1st, 2022
I introduced the Improving Formula Access for a Nutritious Tomorrow (INFANT) Act. This bill will prohibit states from contracting over 70 percent of their Special Supplemental Nut
July 29th, 2022
I gave the following remarks after the Senate passed funding for my CHIPS for America Act, which will restore semiconductor manufacturing back to American soil.
July 27th, 2022
Legendary comedian John Cleese has warned that woke ideology has not only been “disastrous” for comedy, but is leading to the “death of creativity” in general.
July 27th, 2022
If you study polling, Texans are fed up with left-wing prosecutors and politicians who aid and abet our runaway crime situation.
July 26th, 2022
I released the following statement after news that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) soared to 9.1 percent, the highest rate since 1981. For perspective, in January 2021, when President Biden took office, the CPI was 1.4...
July 25th, 2022
I responded to the decision by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to take action against the Mexican government for undermining U.S. energy producers in violation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)....
July 20th, 2022
Last week, Representatives Scott Perry (R-PA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Randy Weber (R-TX), and I sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) raising concerns that Pamela...
July 15th, 2022
I released the following statement after voting for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023:
July 15th, 2022
This week, I sent a letter to President Biden urging him to reconsider his unprecedented trip to East Jerusalem. The President embarks today on a visit to East Jerusalem, a destination no U.S. President has travelled to and...
July 14th, 2022
I authored the following Letter to the Editor in the New York Times:To the Editor:
August 1st, 2022
Last week the Homicide Victims’ Families Rights Act – a bipartisan bill introduced by Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and I to help solve our country’s growing number of homicide cold cases, passed the United States Senate and...
July 28th, 2022
The Biden White House is undertaking an Orwellian effort that ignores history in order to try to redefine the actual definition of the term ‘recession’ in order to avoid bad headlines.
July 27th, 2022
Representatives
July 26th, 2022
Recently, I discovered a new policy that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was using to protect details about terrorist attacks planned by non-citizens from being revealed.
July 25th, 2022
I led a bipartisan Senate resolution with Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) calling on the Russian government to immediately release U.S. citizen Brittney Griner from her wrongful detention and urging the U.S. government to press for...
July 21st, 2022
I issued the following statement in response to the National Defense Authorization Act’s (NDAA) passage in the U.S. House of Representatives.
July 20th, 2022
I voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023.
July 15th, 2022
I applaud the passage of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the U.S. House of Representatives. This package includes four amendments authored by me. TX-23 is home to critical military installations...
July 14th, 2022
Wholesale prices for businesses jumped 11.3 percent from the previous year, according to a new Producer Price Index (PPI) report from the Department of Labor.
July 13th, 2022
After the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its June Consumer Price Index reporting consumer prices are 9.1 percent higher than the year previous, and showing real wages have dropped nearly 4.8 percent since President...