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August 31st, 2020
Over the past decade, 21 rural Texas hospitals have closed. Thirty-two counties have no doctor, and an additional 23 have only one. According to the 2018 Rural Health Report Card published by Texas Tech University Health...
August 24th, 2020
Recently, the IRS Criminal Investigation Unit has seen an uptick in scam cases related to COVID-19 and Economic Impact Payments (EIP).
August 18th, 2020
An estimated 291,000 US citizens and lawful permanent residents* (LPRs) living in Texas were ineligible for federal economic impact payments because of a “marriage penalty.” Under the CARES Act, any person with a social...
August 14th, 2020
I helped introduce legislation yesterday to provide $28 billion for state and local governments to update technological infrastructure to help with COVID-19 recovery efforts and enhance existing cyber infrastructure.
August 13th, 2020
I recently announced at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) that entities in the Rio Grande Valley so far have been allocated $530 million in federal coronavirus relief resources from Congress.
August 11th, 2020
It’s college football players, and the #WeWantToPlay movement.
August 10th, 2020
Businesses that make up most of their sales with alcohol were closed down by Abbott’s latest shutdown order, leaving them to maneuver through loopholes to reopen.
August 5th, 2020
Gov. Greg Abbott stressed Tuesday that only local school boards, not local governments, have the power to decide how to open schools this fall during the coronavirus pandemic.
August 4th, 2020
We need to put the grandstanding, and the posturing, and the rhetoric, and the politicization of this pandemic on the shelf. We need to demonstrate we can work our differences out, and come together, and respond to that need...
July 31st, 2020
The spread of the SARS-COV-2 virus has renewed the focus on the need for domestic vaccine production and manufacturing and the TAMU CIADM is a tremendous tool to fight the virus and future pandemics right here in Texas. ...
August 26th, 2020
Risch goes on to recall that Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has resolutely denied any benefit from hydroxychloroquine, was similarly obstructionist (the similarity is almost eerie) in 1987, in the face of the AIDS epidemic.
August 20th, 2020
Taiwan has proven to be a reliable partner in the global health community, and I am incredibly grateful for their unwavering support for Houston during this time. Their generous donation of 50,000 masks will go to our local...
August 18th, 2020
Thousands packed into a water park over the weekend in the Chinese city of Wuhan -- the first epicenter of the novel coronavirus that quickly swept the globe earlier this year.
August 13th, 2020
I don’t make a habit of cheering for politicians, as you surely know. But holy cow. Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, has been outstanding. She refused to lock down her state. The crazies went berserk.
August 11th, 2020
The vaccine still has to complete final trials, raising concerns among some experts at the speed of its approval, but the Russian business conglomerate Sistema has said it expects to put it into mass production by the end of...
August 10th, 2020
Friday, I announced my support for the American Citizen Coronavirus Relief Act, a bill to retroactively send economic recovery checks authorized by the CARES Act to Texans who did not originally qualify...
August 10th, 2020
This bill will provide families with the resources needed to support their children's education - including tuition, instructional materials, tutoring, and education therapies for students with disabilities.
August 4th, 2020
The city of Houston will begin issuing citations to people who refuse to wear a mask or face covering, Mayor Sylvester Turner said Monday. People who violate Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide face covering order will be issued a...
August 3rd, 2020
Following the largest emergency aid package in American history, Congress is working to craft a smaller, more targeted follow-on package to help accelerate a return to healthy lives and a healthy economy.
July 31st, 2020
It is critical that the most vulnerable Americans receive affordable and effective at-home care. By extending this Medicare pilot program, we can help thousands of Americans with weakened immune systems receive life-saving...
