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December 13th, 2013
I issued the below statement following today’s House vote on the Bipartisan Budget Act (H.J. Res. 59). The budget passed by a vote of 332-94.I supported the congressional budget agreement for a number of reasons. First, it...
December 6th, 2013
Nelson Mandela will prove to be one of the great statesmen of the 20th century, a true revolutionary who spent much of his adult life in prison before leading a nation back to redemption. Much of the revolutionaries of the...
November 25th, 2013
The UNFCCC meeting in Warsaw, Poland, is finished! Great strides were made toward its stated purpose, a “complete transformation of the economic structure of the world.”The U.S. caved to both funding schemes: “loss and...
November 22nd, 2013
I am attending the UNFCCC in Warsaw. As it is a 2 week long meeting, the weekend between is an opportunity to do sightseeing. I took a train to Krakow last weekend and Auschwitz is a bus ride from there. I've been to the...
November 20th, 2013
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the United States is producing more crude oil than it imports. U.S. oil output is soaring due to the fracking boom in North Dakota and, yes, in Texas and some other areas. That is the...
November 15th, 2013
The European Climate Foundation based in The Hague, is a typical green--ignore the science--organization that uses United Nations meetings to push radical environmentalism to destroy liberties, kill jobs and industries, and...
November 13th, 2013
The United Nations’ climate change meeting began Monday in Warsaw, Poland, to discuss “global warming,” but when the globe stopped warming 16 years ago, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was forced to reveal its...
November 1st, 2013
Not long ago, I was approached by a man and woman from the UK who wanted some training and the chance to shoot guns. They were in the United States on vacation and one of the items on their vacation list was to find a...
August 31st, 2013
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to visit a Syrian refugee camp while I was overseas in Turkey. This helped me to better understand the civil war raging in Syria. In the midst of the current turmoil, the...
August 19th, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILNSgou5BYHow many of you enjoy going to the movies? I go to be entertained to watch something that is basically not connected to my reality so I can escape for a short period and then forget...
December 6th, 2013
Each morning in Africa, women and young girls, like this girl in Tanzania, wake up and walk for miles just to collect water for their family. The walk can be dangerous because some wells are controlled by violent thugs....
November 25th, 2013
Today I issued the following statement on the Administration’s announcement of an interim agreement with Iran:This is a bum deal for those who want peace in the region and the world. We just allowed a regime that only last...
November 24th, 2013
The world was reminded the other day why Iran should not get a nuclear weapon--it would be a constant threat to Israel.In a rally in Iran, the Supreme Leader denounced Israel as "untouchable rabid dogs. He then went on to...
November 21st, 2013
Cool temperatures in Warsaw, Poland, were not enough to keep tempers from flaring at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.Stalled talks on a new “loss and damages” funding scheme led to a walkout by...
November 16th, 2013
Today, along with Mark Kirk (R-IL), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), I sent a letter to President Obama highlighting specific concerns with the current proposal being negotiated in Geneva with regard to Iran’s...
November 13th, 2013
Last year, Irans net exports of petroleum dropped to their lowest level since 1990. Its GDP has dropped for the first time in 20 years.The Iranians are feeling the pain of sanctions. Now the Iranians say that they will...
November 10th, 2013
Now we are talking. If this bill from Texas US Senator Ted Cruz passes, we might actually catch the terrorists who attacked the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. The United States of America frequently announces million...
September 21st, 2013
Human trafficking is a horrible problem in this country. As we have reported many times on TexasGOPVote, Texas is one of the worst places for this issue, and Houston is frequently recognized as the national hub for human...
August 19th, 2013
Bono is a rock star, but he is also an anti-poverty activist. For years, he was a major proponent of foreign aid, debt cancellation, and worked to alleviate the dire plight of those suffering from HIV/AIDS, malaria and...
August 19th, 2013
How many times you have heard that climate science is settled and humanity is responsible for our disastrous climate change that will fry or maybe freeze all of mankind? What if you were told that maybe that there is no...
