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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.
June 12th, 2013
Jay Leno may have summed up our situation when he quipped, “How ironic is that? We wanted a president that listens to all Americans -- now we have one.” Yes we have a President who is listening to us all, but then...
June 11th, 2013
Spoiler alert! Obama has already read this blog!Do you remember where you were when Princess Diana's car wreck made the news? Do you remember what you were doing when you first heard about it? Were you on...
June 8th, 2013
Yes it may be grandstanding. And yes we often frown on grandstanding. But there is a time when publicly speaking truth to the corrupt and greedy government workers is needed…no REQUIRED!Trey Gowdy rocks it at the House...
June 7th, 2013
The House Oversight & Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations will hold a field hearing in Dayton on Monday June 10th. The hearing, entitled “The Delphi Pension Bailout: Unequal Treatment of Retirees,”...
June 6th, 2013
The following was sent in from Attorney General Greg Abbott:Your Liberty -- as a United States citizen -- was weakened and threatened yesterday when the Obama Administration helped the United Nations pass the Arms Trade...
June 5th, 2013
They’re demonstrating line dancing techniques, at a cost of $1,600. I wish that were a joke, but it isn’t. A report being released this week shows that this frivolous video was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to...
June 4th, 2013
AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued the following statement after a federal district judge overturned a federal emergency rule that attempted to punish certain states – Texas, Louisiana and Florida - by...
June 3rd, 2013
I hosted Town Hall Meetings this week in Rockport, Aransas Pass, and Luling. In addition to concerns about Attorney General Eric Holder’s snooping on reporters, the IRS targeting conservative groups, the ongoing...
May 31st, 2013
Eric Holder wants to hold a special "mend the fences" meeting with all of the mainstream news media. He wants the meetings to begin tomorrow and run through the week next week as he plans to divide the news agencies up for...
May 31st, 2013
San Antonio City Council Governance Committee Ivy Taylor District 2, Diego Bernal District 1, Chris Medina District 5, David Medina District 7 CHAIR Mayor Julian Castro May 21, 2013The lethal tentacle of Obama has hit San...
June 11th, 2013
Last week, a contractor with the National Security Agency (NSA) revealed that the agency is reviewing large amounts of data from cell phone and internet companies. The NSA is looking for patterns that tend to indicate...
June 11th, 2013
Jay Leno made a suggestion on his June 3rd show which was met with overwhelming approval!“Guantanamo Bay? How ’bout closing the IRS?”Or maybe move the IRS to Gitmo?
Boom. Perfect idea Jay! 2 thumbs way up!!
June 7th, 2013
James Madison wrote, "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." But the enemy the government is now fighting isn't just a foreign one, it appears to be fighting its...
June 6th, 2013
The following notice was sent out by the NRA's Institute for Legislative Affairs:The Texas Legislature adjourned its regular session on Memorial Day after passing fifteen pro-Second Amendment measures, and was immediately...
June 5th, 2013
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our...
June 4th, 2013
When confronting questions about the handling of Benghazi by the State Department, the Justice Department-AP scandal, and the IRS-Tea Party scandal, President Obama has said repeatedly he only became aware of the problems...
June 3rd, 2013
Jonathan Turley is a left wing constitutional scholar, but recently in the Washington Post, he wrote a piece on the bureaucratic state that any conservative could have written and a searing indictment of the progressive...
June 2nd, 2013
What if instead of heading toward global warming, we are about to enter another Little Ice Age? The only thing we can say for certain about climate change is how much we don’t know. Forty years ago, scientists were talking...
May 31st, 2013
It should come as no surprise that Barack Obama is a man of the left.As such, he tends to downplay American exceptionalism and overplay his global worldview. As a partisan politico he has elevated opponent bashing into an...
May 30th, 2013
This week I filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court challenging (Noel Canning v. NLRB) the constitutionality of President Obama’s January 2012 “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations...
