Voting Resources
Security
A strong national defense is vital in a post-9/11 world. That includes comprehensive border security. In keeping us safe, the government may be tempted to overreach in ways disturbing to those of us who value our liberty above all else. Spying on Americans in the name of security is unacceptable. Finding the right balance between our national security and our freedoms is essential in keeping Americans safe from terrorists who want to kill us because they hate our way of life.
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 2nd, 2015
Hours after as many as three gunmen stormed a service center for people with disabilities here on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding at least 17 others, the police engaged in a shootout in nearby suburban...
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 28th, 2015
Two UN peacekeepers from Guinea and a civilian contractor have been killed in a rocket attack on a UN base in northeastern Mali.
The attack has been claimed by the jihadist Ansar Dine group, a week after a deadly siege at a...
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
Hundreds of pro-Syrian refugee activists took to the streets of Austin, Texas, this weekend to protest Governor Greg Abbott’s order to refuse the resettlement of Syrian refugees into Texas.
November 21st, 2015
Heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key intersections, subways were closed and many stores shut their doors in Belgium's capital Saturday as the government warned of a threat of Paris-style attacks. At least one...
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...
November 18th, 2015
As we all watched in horror the events that unfolded in Paris on Friday night, November 13, we knew that Satan was wandering the streets in France. The President of France, Francois Hollande, called it an act of WAR! It did...
November 17th, 2015
The question after the recent terrorist attacks is met with gnashing of teeth and admonishments but will anything change? It begins at the top, and in the past century, we have been blessed with great leaders such as ...
December 4th, 2015
As much as we try to stay away from the TV screen, some things are impossible to ignore.
December 2nd, 2015
A new U.S. Special Operations "targeting force" that will be deployed to Iraq to go after ISIS leaders, and the possibility of the United Kingdom’s broadening airstrikes against ISIS into Syria are the latest signs of...
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 27th, 2015
Belgium has charged a sixth suspect with terrorist offences over the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris after a series of house searches in Brussels and southern Belgium on Thursday. Federal prosecutors said on Friday that they had...
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 23rd, 2015
Dusk is gathering but the pale wintry sunshine keeps temperatures above zero for a final hour. Annelise Augustyns is on her way to a playground near the Gare du Midi with her two children, aged three and five. All three are...
November 20th, 2015
Suspected Islamist gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako early Friday, killing as many as 27 people and taking scores of hostages during a day-long siege.
November 19th, 2015
The attacks on our nation's oldest ally have struck us here at home to our very core. We know what it's like to be attacked in our homeland, and we know, therefore, what the French people are going through. So as we continue...
November 18th, 2015
Three Pakistani police officers were killed and several more were wounded today in a failed police operation on a Pakistani Taliban hideout in Peshawar.
November 16th, 2015
As warplanes pound ISIS targets and U.S. special forces ramp up operations in Syria, the war against the terrorist group may be unfolding on another far more unconventional front as well.
The hackers' collective known as...
