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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.
July 29th, 2013
For the last few months, the San Antonio City Council has been considering a “non-discrimination ordinance” in which they pretty much discriminate against the First Amendment rights of free speech or free exercise of...
July 26th, 2013
Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Senator Tommy Williams has been plugging the “good conservative budget … we can all be proud of” that the Texas legislature passed and Governor Perry left largely intact. Senator...
July 24th, 2013
Earlier this year the Obama Administration announced that ACA – “ObamaCare” – would not be fully implemented because its complexities and uncertainties were causing great confusion. Instead, the business mandate will be...
July 23rd, 2013
Erica Grieder's book Big, Hot, Cheap and Right: What America Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas lays out an interesting case for why the Texas miracle of this young century is worth looking at.Ms. Grieder's...
July 22nd, 2013
This Wednesday in the House Judiciary Committee, we held a hearing with government officials from the DOJ, NSA, and FBI to investigate the Administration’s collecting of personal phone records and other data. According to an...
July 20th, 2013
I spoke on the Senate floor today on the disappointment felt by many Obamacare supporters, and invited President Obama to work together on creating workable alternatives to the failed health care law.The full speech can be...
July 18th, 2013
GUNS SAVE LIVES.2.5 million times last year, Americans brandished a firearm in order to defend and preserve life.In most of those cases, the trigger was never pulled.The government, federal or state, DOES NOT have the...
July 17th, 2013
Over the past three years, we have seen an assault on free speech and freedom of the press by those in power. Campaign finance laws have always been used less as a restriction on money in politics and more as a restriction...
July 17th, 2013
Did you know that taxpayers guarantee nine out of every ten new mortgages in our country? Look around any new neighborhoods being built nearby. Most likely, only one or two of the mortgages on houses on that block are not...
July 16th, 2013
Much has been said about Florida Senator Marco Rubios decision to stand solidly for immigration reform and stronger border security. The man who became an overnight hero with strong conservatives has been labeled a sellout...
July 27th, 2013
Ross Ramsey of the Texas Tribune only sees the political debate behind both HB2′s restrictions on abortion and Medicaid expansion.The state didn’t expand its Medicaid program, and you’ll still find legislators...
July 25th, 2013
Well, well, well. The state of Texas has been in the news quite a bit as of late, hasn't it? Some, but not all, of the attention was on the upcoming 2014 mid-term elections and who is running for what, or what I like to...
July 23rd, 2013
In 2011, Debbie Georgatos coined the phrase "Super Massive Blue Hole" to define the effect on cities that are controlled over long periods of time by liberal Democrat governments and policies. She named Detroit as the...
July 22nd, 2013
James Bennett and Michael Lotus in their book, America 3.0, see the end of the Bureaucratic State, or what they call the end of America 2.0, and return to a smaller and more decentralized America 3.0. Bennett and...
July 21st, 2013
Texas has entered the political 'silly season.' If you're a NASCAR fan, you know what I'm talking about — the time when drivers and sponsors jump around from car to car. All around us, current officeholders are deciding to...
July 19th, 2013
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) addressed the unraveling of Obamacare on the Senate floor today and called on President Obama to support the rule of law by applying the same rules for all Americans, not waivers...
July 18th, 2013
Since the 2012 election, there has been quite a lot of talk about Harris County moving from Republican to Democrat. But anyone who is paying attention to this legislative session will see that the Republican legislators from...
July 17th, 2013
Thank God our Congress has solved all of the massive problems facing this country so that we can now worry about what to do about artifact piracy... ON THE MOON! Yes, it seems scandal-ridden Congresswoman Eddie Bernice...
July 17th, 2013
Although I’ve been rather quiet about the George Zimmerman case, I’ve had many opinions throughout the proceedings.I’ve generally not wanted to talk about it because, overall, it is just a local crime story that’s gotten out...
July 16th, 2013
On July 14, 1789, the French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille and from there, events would end up with the reign of terror, plus a democratic fraternity that ended up devouring many of the original...
