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Put simply: We are for limited government that works. At TexasGOPVote, we will work as a watchdog to help our state lawmakers and our congressional delegation pull in the reins on unnecessary spending and government bureaucracy. You better believe we’ll expose politicians who seek to act outside the bounds set by the Forefathers in the Constitutions of Texas and the United States.
December 19th, 2019
Handing a win to Texas education officials, an Austin-based federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Houston Independent School District in an effort to stop the state from seizing control of its troubled...
December 19th, 2019
Today, for the third time in our country’s history, the House voted on articles of impeachment of a sitting president. This process has been partisan and politically motivated from the start.
December 18th, 2019
As the Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I made the following statement after the passage of the bipartisan 2020 Appropriations Package, which included increased funding to defeat childhood cancer,...
December 17th, 2019
Harris County, long a national leader in the use of the death penalty, has handed down just two death sentences in the past five years.
December 16th, 2019
Ahead of the impeachment vote, Houston Public Media tracked down what the area’s Congressional delegation has been saying.
December 16th, 2019
Speaker Pelosi’s partisan drug plan, H.R. 3, is Washington at its worst. Aptly called the Fewer Cures Act, this government take-over plan will harm patients and stifle American medical innovation. In fact, the non-partisan...
December 13th, 2019
HOUSTON, Texas — Two Texas law enforcement agencies teamed up to rescue a younger woman and a 16-year-old girl from an alleged human trafficker. The woman reports she was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and faced forced...
December 13th, 2019
Recently, I joined my colleagues to support the bipartisan Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report, which includes the Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard...
December 12th, 2019
Yesterday, U.S. Senate Democrat Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) blocked passage of my bipartisan drug pricing bill with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) for a second time.
December 12th, 2019
Buzbee asked a question of his fellow citizens recently, "Can anyone look at the present state of Houston city government and say: Let's have four more years of this?"
December 19th, 2019
Yesterday, as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, I joined my colleagues to support the bipartisan Appropriations package for FY 2020. These bills provide funding not just to keep the government running but to...
December 18th, 2019
During Hurricane Harvey, thousands of properties behind two federally owned reservoirs flooded. On Tuesday, the United States Court of Federal Claims ruled that the government was liable for the flooding and that property...
December 18th, 2019
Yesterday on the floor, I called up and passed the Debbie Smith Act of 2019. Excerpts of my floor remarks are below, and video can be found here.
December 17th, 2019
Our plan puts patients first, requiring enhanced consumer protections, transparency, and explanations of benefits. The Ways and Means approach respects the private market dynamics between insurance plans and providers, and...
December 16th, 2019
As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on The Constitution, I yesterday appeared on ABC’s ‘This Week’ with George Stephanopoulos to discuss the House Democrats’ Articles of Impeachment and the chilling Inspector General...
December 13th, 2019
I released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced it reached a Phase One trade agreement with China on tariff rate reductions, suspension of new tariffs, intellectual property, financial services,...
December 13th, 2019
After more than 14 hours of sparring on Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee is reconvening Friday to vote on two articles of impeachment.
December 12th, 2019
U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison said the lawyers can further probe the Texas prison agency’s violations of a court order to provide air conditioning for some inmates — and agency officials’ false claims that they were in...
December 12th, 2019
Yesterday, the bipartisan bill by U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (VA-07) and I to ensure the intelligence community prioritizes resources to combat drug trafficking, human trafficking and human smuggling in the...
December 11th, 2019
A federal judge in El Paso on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s plan to pay for border barrier construction with $3.6 billion in military funds, ruling that the administration does not have the authority to divert...
