117th Congress
July 21st, 2022
I issued the following statement in response to the National Defense Authorization Act’s (NDAA) passage in the U.S. House of Representatives.
July 20th, 2022
Last week, Representatives Scott Perry (R-PA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Randy Weber (R-TX), and I sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) raising concerns that Pamela...
July 15th, 2022
I applaud the passage of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the U.S. House of Representatives. This package includes four amendments authored by me. TX-23 is home to critical military installations...
July 14th, 2022
Wholesale prices for businesses jumped 11.3 percent from the previous year, according to a new Producer Price Index (PPI) report from the Department of Labor.
July 13th, 2022
I am excited to report on some of the successes my team and I have achieved in policy, communications, and constituent services since being sworn into Congress a year and a half ago.
July 11th, 2022
I announced last week that Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Airport has been awarded $35,000,000 in grants from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Airport Terminal Program. DFW Airport received funding for a Zero Carbon...
July 6th, 2022
On July 6, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in a case brought by Texas seeking to invalidate the DACA program. The appeals court’s decision is almost certain to tee up a fight in the U.S. Supreme...
July 1st, 2022
I successfully included $5,484,000 for a multi-county radio infrastructure upgrade in the first draft of the FY23 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill.
June 29th, 2022
I introduced H.R. 8235 – the Housing Supply Expansion Act – to help increase the supply of affordable housing by removing archaic red-tape requirements under the Davis-Bacon Act.
June 28th, 2022
I made the following statement after voting against the Senate gun control bill that raises Constitutional concerns.
July 21st, 2022
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) hosted a press conference with the American Business Immigration Coalition Action (ABIC Action),
July 20th, 2022
I voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023.
July 14th, 2022
This week in the Senate Judiciary Committee, I questioned UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Khiara M. Bridges on the value of unborn children’s lives. Excerpts are below, and video can be found here. Sen. Cornyn: “Do...
July 13th, 2022
Monday I discussed Senator Schumer’s decision to hold up the funding for the CHIPS for America Act in a futile attempt to try and pass his reckless spending legislation. Excerpts of my remarks are below, and video...
July 11th, 2022
I released the following statement on the Bureau of Labor Statistics June jobs report:
July 8th, 2022
This week, I announced that my bill, the Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act, which allows physicians to prescribe buprenorphine without first obtaining a waiver, passed the House, 402 to 20, Wednesday, June 22. ...
July 5th, 2022
Last week, I urged the Committee on Veterans Affairs to amend H.R. 3967, the PACT Act, to offset its cost and ensure it does not create severe backlogs in VA treatment.
June 30th, 2022
After the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation increased by 6.3 percent from the year previous, I issued the following statement:
June 29th, 2022
I released the following statement after at least 48 people died in an abandoned tractor trailer in San Antonio, TX, and an additional two people died later at the hospital. An additional 14 people remain at a local hospital...
June 27th, 2022
A coalition of leading law enforcement, mental health, domestic violence, and education groups have endorsed my Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and multiple Editorial Boards have voiced their support.