Voting Resources
United States
June 26th, 2014
When I get a phone call from a media source saying they want to interview me, I know they have “program time” to fill. And as a participant, I am the “filler.” I never turn them down, but I am seldom optimistic about the...
June 25th, 2014
At Saturdays gospel musical, I explained how Black people have to learn to vote for a candidate that will benefit them the most, not just a candidate who happens to be black. We must take a critical look at every candidate...
June 24th, 2014
Today, I introduced the Holding IRS Leadership Accountable Act to prohibit bonuses to senior-level executives of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) until all Congressional requests for documents, including e-mails...
June 24th, 2014
It’s been over a year since we found out about IRS discrimination against groups that don’t share their political views, and I’m still outraged at the Administration’s abuse of power. We’ve been doing everything we can in...
June 23rd, 2014
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claimed that it “lost” two years’ worth of emails directly related to the agency’s targeting of law-abiding taxpayers. This is unbelievable. Old emails don’t disappear on their...
June 22nd, 2014
Last week, I spoke in the Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights hearing in opposition to the Democrats’ proposed constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment and restrict the...
June 20th, 2014
On Thursday I managed the rule on the House floor for the Customer Protection and End User Relief Act. This legislation would reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission while protecting end users like farmers,...
June 19th, 2014
First and foremost we have to do everything possible to make sure all Americans in Iraq are secure and not swept up in a Sunni-Shiite civil war. We have more than 2,000 people in the country, and given the volatility of the...
June 18th, 2014
Last week, the House Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations bill. The bill funds critical national security needs, military operations abroad, and quality-of-life programs for...
June 17th, 2014
On June 2nd, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a regulation establishing CO2 emission guidelines, better known as cap-and-trade. This is such a bad policy President Obama could even get it passed when the...
June 26th, 2014
Democrats are giddy over the unsealing of “secret” documents that charge Scott Walker with an involvement in a criminal scheme, but all this showed either the media bias or simply their ignorance.
June 25th, 2014
I applaud the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's passage of H.R. 4012, the Secret Science Reform Act of 2014. The Secret Science Reform Act requires the EPA to base its regulations on science that is...
June 24th, 2014
The Iraq debacle has shown that our emperor has no clothes. For the past six years, the media has covered up for the most incompetent administration since the beginning of the 20th century, but as Iraq spirals out of control...
June 23rd, 2014
Moms Demand Action is an anti gun organization that works to disarm law abiding moms and dads across the country.
June 23rd, 2014
Last week, I visited the VA Outpatient Clinics in Corpus Christi and Victoria to get the real story on wait times, quality of service, and other issues from local Veterans and VA staff.As you may have read, the Corpus...
June 21st, 2014
I released the following statement praising the passage of the FY2015 Defense Appropriations bill. The bill passed the House yesterday by a vote of 340-73.This bill promotes our national security and provides for our troops...
June 20th, 2014
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-New Hampshire, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and I have filed legislation to temporarily halt further transfers or releases for detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Following the controversial prisoner swap the...
June 19th, 2014
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following statement for Juneteenth, June 19, 2014. Sens. Cornyn and Cruz are original cosponsors of a Senate resolution introduced by Sen. Carl Levin, D-MI...
June 18th, 2014
Our elite Special Operations forces have located and captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Ahmed Abu Khattala was able to roam free for far too long, even conducting interviews with...
June 17th, 2014
David Brat won a stunning and surprising victory in last week’s primary election in Virginia, unseating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). But Brat doesn’t seem to understand the very issue that seems to have...
