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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.
March 14th, 2013
Is it Girls or Bankruptcy Judges that have Gone Wild?Researching everything going on in relation to the bankruptcy series I have been writing can be pretty dry. However, recently on Bankruptcy Law...
March 13th, 2013
This morning, I responded on the Senate floor to President Obama’s assertion in an interview with ABC News that there is no immediate debt crisis.The President has said that we must embrace a "balanced approach" to deficit...
March 12th, 2013
The following notice was sent out by the NRA's Institute for Legislative Affairs about Gun Rights issues before this session of the Texas Legislature. For those who support the Second Amendment, this is an important day to...
March 12th, 2013
It’s hard for some people to believe, but I’m a country boy. I grew up on a 25,000 acre cattle ranch outside a small Central Texas town. We fished and hunted practically every day. Rods and reels and guns were as normal as...
March 8th, 2013
Scott Garfield/TWD productions LLCWe all agree that it’s time that dead people in San Antonio and elsewhere in Texas stop voting. Weston Martinez has become synonymous with stomping out Voter Fraud in San Antonio. I spoke...
March 8th, 2013
How many years has it been since a Senate session was riveting and awe-inspiring? Far too many. But Rand Paul was cheered by most in attendance when he finally yielded the floor after nearly 13 hours. It was applause for...
March 7th, 2013
"This is really what the White House is all about. It’s the 'People’s House.' It’s a place that is steeped in history, but it’s also a place where everyone should feel welcome. And that's why my husband and I have made it...
March 6th, 2013
Today I questioned Attorney General Eric Holder on the conduct of the Justice Department over their involvement in the prosecution of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz:Following is a partial transcript and video of the...
March 5th, 2013
A few years ago, a Democrat friend of my children told me that he would be more willing to vote Republican if they would just simply forget about those social issues. In 2009, the Tea Party movement arrived from the...
March 4th, 2013
A year ago, I wrote a piece asking if Obama was morphing into the next Herbert Hoover or Richard Nixon, but I have come to the conclusion that he was and still is both. While the media has always favored Democratic...
March 13th, 2013
Mainstream media has proven since 2007 to be one more arm of the Obama publicity and punditry machine: they highlight and cheer obama’s every perceived accomplishment and black out and cover up any of the president’s...
March 12th, 2013
Today I issued a statement in support of the Republican plan to balance the budget by 2023. Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) today released the fiscal year 2014 House budget resolution. More information about the...
March 12th, 2013
In this series of articles, we have addressed cases involving Delphi employees being stripped of their pensions without representation, General Motors being swept through the bankruptcy process in 44 days leaving an...
March 11th, 2013
You are likely seeing posts about the coming “right-wing attack,” meant to foment more support for gun control. But what the government isn’t going to allow the lamestream media to tell you is, it is they who are planning an...
March 8th, 2013
Houston Young RepublicansActing on one of the core principles of conservatism, the Houston Young Republicans (HYR) are taking a stand on rolling back government regulations on small business. This...
March 7th, 2013
Yesterday I voted for the H.R. 933, the Department of Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013. The bill provides our military and veterans with the funding...
March 7th, 2013
The second of the ten “bill of rights” amendments has been said to be “not needed until you need it.” With the recent public mass shootings prompting gun-ban groups (almost exclusively extreme leftist/progressive/Marxist...
March 6th, 2013
This video, from the Swedish version of the IRS, shows what the world would supposedly look like without taxes. All soccer fields would be left to deteriorate. Filth would come out of your shower head. We’d all be driving in...
March 4th, 2013
In a time when the President is deploying scare tactics about sequestration, reports of luxury travel by federal government employees just goes to show the obvious places that government spending needs to be reigned in. I...
March 1st, 2013
I am disappointed that President Obama allowed sequester cuts to take effect. His decision places partisan politics above the best interests of the American people. The cuts are regrettable, but were avoidable. House...
