Ted Poe
February 24th, 2016
President Obama's decision to fulfill an 8 year old campaign promise on his way out the door by unilaterally closing Guantanamo Bay is not only dangerous, it is also illegal. The law -whether he likes it or not- says that...
February 19th, 2016
California federal judge’s decision to mandate that Apple create new technology to give the FBI backdoor access to iPhones.
February 12th, 2016
The NSA is using a loophole in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to spy on Americans without a warrant. Under section 702 of FISA, government agents may seize information from databases on suspected foreign...
February 9th, 2016
Brooke was a victim of human trafficking and child pornography at the age of 7. The nanny was selling Brooke on the marketplace of sex slavery in the United States. A small child sold for sex in the United States is shameful...
January 22nd, 2016
This week, I voted on legislation to end the 40-year old ban on crude oil exports, permanently allow Texans to deduct their state and local sales taxes, increase defense spending to combat ISIS and radical Islamic terror and...
January 13th, 2016
The great World War II was at its peak. So, on September 11, 1943, 28-year-old Sandy Thompson left her teaching job and volunteered for the Women Airforce Service Pilots, better known as the WASP.
January 8th, 2016
I issued the following statement on the arrest of Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan. Al Hardan came to the United States as a refugee from Iraq and has been living in Houston while allegedly providing support to ISIS.
December 22nd, 2015
I have joined a bipartisan group of 10 Members of Congress to launch the Cuba Working Group, a group that will focus on crafting new policies and ways to appropriately restore U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations.
December 18th, 2015
I come here today with yet another example of China's egregious disregard for the most basic of human rights--the right to live freely.
December 14th, 2015
As co-chair of the Georgia Caucus along with Congressman Gerald Connolly, I would like to take a moment to discuss the importance of a strong U.S.-Georgia relationship.
February 22nd, 2016
With civil wars in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq, and with instability and terrorism stretching from Turkey to Egypt, now is not the time for the United States to further roil the Middle East by appeasing our adversaries and...
February 16th, 2016
Five police officers in the United States last week were gunned down: one in North Dakota, one in Georgia, one in Colorado, and two in Maryland. I am going to talk about the two in Maryland
February 11th, 2016
It was a routine exercise, sailing from Kuwait to Bahrain through the Persian Gulf, until, allegedly, the navigation system failed on one of the two U.S. gunboats. Mysteriously, the boats lost communication.
February 4th, 2016
Earlier this year, U.S. Marshals announced the arrest of Rosain Moreno, a 27-year-old Pennsylvania man, who allegedly convinced a 13-year-old girl to run away from her parents and travel with him to South Carolina.
January 15th, 2016
In his State of the Union message, President Obama claimed that America’s standing as a world power is greater than when he first took office.
January 9th, 2016
With the holidays behind us and the second session of the 114th Congress in full swing, the New Year is a good chance to look back at the legislative accomplishments from last year. Too often, the media covers the bickering...
January 6th, 2016
This week’s deadly terrorist attack on the Pathankot Air Base is a reminder that our ally India faces the same threat of radical Islamic terrorism. Unfortunately, India’s neighbor Pakistan has provided safe haven to...
December 21st, 2015
This week, I voted on legislation to end the 40-year old ban on crude oil exports, permanently allow Texans to deduct their state and local sales taxes, increase defense spending to combat ISIS and radical Islamic terror and...
December 16th, 2015
Serbia's recent donation of $5.4 million to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where thousands of Muslims were killed in the Yugoslav Wars, is a clear sign that the Serbian Government wants to do what they can to improve...
December 11th, 2015
Terrorists have used Twitter to convert thousands of young American minds and recruit new jihadists for ISIS.Federal law prohibits giving aid or helping a designated foreign terrorist organization. These FTOs use Twitter, an...