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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 8th, 2011
Today, I issued this statement following the President’s speech today addressing Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating:Standard & Poor’s warned us in April, and again in July, that absent serious...
July 28th, 2011
Vice Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) Joint Economic Committee hearing on Maximizing America’s Prosperity
A hearing before the Joint Economic Committee will be held on Wednesday on “Maximizing America’s Prosperity: How Fiscal Rules can Restrain Federal Overspending.” Republican Members of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S...
July 15th, 2011
Adryana Boyne, National Director of VOCES and VOCES Action political commentator, political consultant, and TexasGOPVote blogger, gave the keynote address at the San Antonio Tea Partys April 17th event held at Pedrottis...
July 6th, 2011
Obama’s Treasury Loses Track of Debt Owed to China, While Democrats Assign Blame Over Spending Spree
NRCC - Revelations out late last week uncovered that the Chinese government may be buying more U.S. government debt than previously thought, in possible violation of international agreements and at potential risk to U.S....
July 4th, 2011
We have professional politicians running our country whose theory on government is a mess, to say the least. These policy makers and elected officials lack the clarity, simplicity, and intellectual honesty to live up to...
June 25th, 2011
Thursday, I spoke on the Senate floor about the Democrats’ calls for new stimulus spending, the debt ceiling negotiations, and unemployment:
June 15th, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) joined Mike Crapo (R-ID), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Jim Risch (R-ID), and Pat Toomey (R-PA), Tuesday to cosponsor Senator Portman’s (R-OH) bill to reduce...
June 8th, 2011
I filed an amendment Tuesday to the Economic Development Administration reauthorization bill that would halt the proposed listing of the Sand Dune Lizard to the Endangered Species List. His amendment would exempt the Sand...
May 28th, 2011
Responding to reports that the Obama Administration will oppose efforts to make Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I issued the following statement:Citizens have a fundamental right...
May 17th, 2011
The following interview with Texas Representative Warren Chisum is one of a series of interviews conducted by VOCES Action and TexasGOPVote with members of the Hispanic Republican Conference in the 82nd session of the Texas...
August 4th, 2011
RPT Chairman Steve Munisteri- In the month of July, the priority was to address the potential problem the Republican Party of Texas has relative to the selection of national convention delegates. As previously reported, in...
July 19th, 2011
NRCC - As the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, it was noteworthy last week when the Chinese government expressed its concern about rising U.S. indebtedness, stating its hope that “responsible policies” would be adopted...
July 13th, 2011
Today I signed on as a co-sponsor of the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011, which was introduced by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT).With the President refusing to show leadership and the Democrat-controlled Senate refusing to pass a...
July 5th, 2011
Democrats, deluded media and leftist academicians and other “experts,” are as usual, much on about the urgency to add “revenue” measures to a debt-reduction program. By this, of course, they mean tax increases, and...
July 1st, 2011
I intended to give an everyday illustration of how government regulation corrupts markets and actually consolidates market inequalities, but that will wait a few days. This somewhat follows up on Tuesday’s post, in which I...
June 17th, 2011
The June 14th weekly Dallas County Commissioners’ Court public meeting yielded fewer fireworks than the previous week’s, but more troubling conduct by some of our Commissioners. Last week the Democrat-controlled DCCC, after...
June 10th, 2011
The heroic Foundation for a Free Society is producing a documentary on nullification. Here’s a trailer:
June 1st, 2011
I released the following statement regarding the House’s rejection of a measure supported by the Obama Administration to raise the national debt limit by $2.4 trillion without any conditions for fiscal responsibility by a...
May 24th, 2011
Today, I issued the following statement in response to Senate Democrats’ plan to forego producing a budget and ignore entitlement reform because it is politically expedient:Senate Democrats have given their game plan away:...
May 13th, 2011
Have you wondered why your children lecture you about the environment and where they get their misinformation? The answer is critical to fulfilling your parental responsibility to rightly educate your children and to protect...
