117th Congress

Monday on the floor, I discussed Senate Democrats’ failure to complete the basic functions of governing, including providing for the national defense, avoiding default on the national debt, and funding the government.

At a time when government spending and debt continue to grow at an unsustainable rate, the American people deserve more than smoke-and-mirror accounting from Washington, D.C. 

America, the results are in, and now we know it was all nonsense, just nonsense.

This partisan bill includes some of the largest tax increases and spending increases in American history, and that spending goes to the most radical left-wing priorities.

Today, America’s labor shortage, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has reached 10.9 million job openings; 712,000 of those jobs are in Texas. Businesses are shutting their doors for good because they can’t find workers...

We still have a long road ahead of us to improve the VA, but this is an important start.

I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to reassert our bipartisan consensus that Putin’s pipeline is bad for American national security and the security of our allies, and to impose sanctions on entities ...

Rural Texans, responsible for transporting critical energy and agriculture products around the Nation, know better than anyone the need for safe, reliable infrastructure. Sadly, the Senate-passed Infrastructure bill does...

The current historic labor shortage negatively impacts the economy in a number of ways, including increasing the costs of goods and services. These immigration reforms are good solutions to supply the US economy with the...