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October 6th, 2015
Russian involvement in the 4½-year-old Syrian civil war seems to be escalating, with NATO's secretary general confirming Tuesday a second incursion by Russian planes into Turkish airspace and saying Russian ground troops...
October 5th, 2015
Last week I sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter seeking information on the appalling sexual abuse of children reportedly occurring in Afghanistan and requesting the Department of Defense’s (DoD) plan to...
September 30th, 2015
May was the flowering month for the Syrian thistle. The pink heads grew from the rubble in a small village south of the city of Tel Tamer, in northern Syria. A local Kurdish militia had liberated the village from the Islamic...
September 25th, 2015
It was an honor to have Pope Francis address Congress. It was a powerful call for all of us to set aside pettiness and partisan divides and come together with shared values to solve the very real challenges facing this...
September 24th, 2015
Today I welcomed dozens of Texans to Washington for Pope Francis’ visit and address to Congress. His message of hope and love is one that resonates with many people across different faiths. It is appropriate the pope’s visit...
September 23rd, 2015
Just a day before the arrival of President Xi Jinping of China for a meeting with President Obama that will be focused heavily on limiting cyberespionage, the Office of Personnel Management said Wednesday that the hackers...
September 21st, 2015
Under the President's nuclear deal, the United States agreed to give the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism a billion-dollar oil boom. The United States will allow Iran to export its crude oil, but ironically, it...
September 18th, 2015
Earlier this year, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter stunned Congress and the country when he admitted that the administration's $500 million program to train and equip so-called moderate Syrian rebels had resulted in the...
September 15th, 2015
Saudi authorities have said the giant Saudi Binladin Group was "in part" responsible for Friday's deadly crane collapse at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
An investigative commission ruled that the company had not "respected the...
September 11th, 2015
Today, marks the 14th anniversary of September 11th, 2001. Three thousand people were killed as terrorists tried to tear our country apart. America learned that day just how resilient she was. Despite immeasurable tragedy,...
October 5th, 2015
On April 17, 2006, a 16-year old American high school student named Daniel Wultz was murdered by an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber while touring Tel Aviv.
October 1st, 2015
Pope Francis asked all Catholics to pray for those “who seek a home where they can live without fear” but went further by actually praising those who help refugees.
September 29th, 2015
Another GTMO terrorist has been released back into the world by this administration. Abdul Shalabi, a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is now a free man thanks to our government.
September 24th, 2015
Coptic Christians--the largest religious minority in Egypt and the largest Christian community in the Middle East--are constantly persecuted.In 2011, Ayman Nabil Labib went to school like he did every day. Ayman, like most...
September 24th, 2015
Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Catholics, challenged Congress and by extension the mightiest nation in history on Thursday to break out of its cycle of polarization and paralysis to finally use its power...
September 23rd, 2015
Tomorrow, Pope Francis will deliver a historic address to Congress. Earlier this year, he spoke about "a form of genocide" happening in the world. Globally, Christians are being imprisoned, tortured and killed for their...
September 18th, 2015
As key nations tighten their borders, thousands of migrants and asylum seekers hoping to enter the European Union are now bottled up in the Balkans, placing precarious new burdens on a region of lingering sectarian divisions...
September 16th, 2015
There are five entities that have mischief and aggression on their minds--of course, ISIS, Iran, Russia, North Korea, and China.
September 12th, 2015
This week is a somber week for our nation. September 11th reminds us of the sacred responsibility we in Congress have to protect the American people from those who want to kill us. That is why we must oppose the Iran deal....
September 10th, 2015
The Norwegian government has confirmed a man in his forties has been taken hostage by the Islamic State group after being kidnapped in January this year. Prime Minister Erna Solberg said crisis teams are in “full swing” to...
