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United States
December 8th, 2015
A new children’s book has been released honoring slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The book, You Are My Hero, was created by his sister and a friend to honor the slain agent who was murdered nearly five...
December 3rd, 2015
Please immediately urge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to vote for H.R. 3762, the pro-life reconciliation bill to defund Planned Parenthood.Your two-minute call or email is critical to the passage of this bill. This is expected to be a...
December 2nd, 2015
Today I issued the following statement regarding the passage of S.1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act:
December 1st, 2015
This is one check the Salvation Army is counting on to clear.
Salvation Army officials in Minnesota and North Dakota say a couple dropped a $500,000 check into a red kettle outside a Cub Foods in suburban Minneapolis on...
December 1st, 2015
In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees have questions about the foreign fighter travel th
November 30th, 2015
Chris Christie (R) picked up some much-needed momentum on Saturday after the biggest newspaper in New Hampshire endorsed his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The New Hampshire Union Leader, an influential...
November 26th, 2015
New York Police are showing up in droves to protect the record-breaking crowd expected at today's Thanksgiving parade in the city.
The "thousands and thousands" of officers that Mayor Bill de Blasio said are going to be...
November 24th, 2015
I was honored to be appointed to the Conference Committee that will negotiate the differences between the House's six-year highway bill and the Senate's version of the bill. As the senior Texan on the House Committee on...
November 23rd, 2015
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation reforming the nation’s central bank, including a new bipartisan national commission I have championed.
November 20th, 2015
Earlier this week, I introduced a House Resolution (H.Res525) urging the Administration to work with the NATO member states to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty in response to the Paris attacks. Article 5...
December 4th, 2015
The suspected killer wife, using an alias on social media, pledged her allegiance to al Baghdadi in the hours before the massacre, sources tell ABC News. Tashfeen Malik and her husband Syed Farook were identified by police...
December 3rd, 2015
Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio both impressed audiences in the last debate. Senator Rubio’s positions on immigration are discussed frequently, but Senator Cruz is normally viewed as an...
December 2nd, 2015
I issued the following statement after voting to support two Senate-passed measures that block job-killing EPA regulations: the Congressional Disapproval of the EPA’s CO2 Rule for Existing Power Plants (S.J. Res. 24) and the...
December 1st, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee (RLCC) named its 2016 leadership with Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus serving as the group’s chairman and Pennsylvania Speaker Mike Turzai serving...
November 30th, 2015
One very important part of my job as a member of Congress is to get to know and listen to those who live in the 27th District of Texas. It is also one of the most rewarding. Texas has no shortage of hardworking, down-to-...
November 29th, 2015
Each year I am honored to highlight military heroes from the 32nd Congressional District of Texas who have valiantly served our nation and have made selfless sacrifices for the freedoms that we enjoy as Americans. During...
November 25th, 2015
After a night of loud, angry protests but only five arrests, police and elected officials were bracing Wednesday for more possible backlash over the release of a dramatic video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting...
November 24th, 2015
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and Space Subcommittee Chairman Brian Babin (R-Texas) today praised a private space company’s successful test of a reusable rocket at a test...
November 22nd, 2015
Our nation has led the world in making the impossible possible. One example is our national space program and by extension, our emerging commercial space industry.
November 19th, 2015
Court documents released earlier this year detailed the allegations against Fogle. The documents claimed that he had used Web sites to solicit commercial sex and that he had traveled to engage in sexual acts with minors....
