In recent testimony before the Senate Business and Commerce committee, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas testified that Texas may need 150,000 megawatts of power to power our grid by 2030. That is only six years away. Currently, Texas typically has approximately 85,000 megawatts of power available counting wind, solar, coal, nuclear, and natural gas. If the new estimate is correct, the updated numbers provided by Mr. Vegas call for an immediate review of all policies concerning the grid.
Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) voted for the final passage of three Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Appropriations bills in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Gonzales is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and helped craft H.R. 8774, the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025, H.R. 8752, the Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025, and H.R. 8771, the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025.
American families are fed up with the Biden Administration’s consistent refusals to address the crisis at our southern border and the risks it poses to our national security. Thankfully, House Republicans are taking action. We passed legislation that counters President Biden’s border crisis by providing $600 million for the construction of the border wall, investing in border security technology, forcing Secretary Mayorkas to adhere to U.S. border laws, and supporting 22,000 Border Patrol agents.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today said state sales tax revenue totaled $3.94 billion in June, 0.4 percent more than in June 2023. Total sales tax revenue for the three months ending in June 2024 was up 0.5 percent compared with the same period a year ago. Sales tax is the largest source of state funding for the state budget, accounting for 57 percent of all tax collections.
At a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, following his universally criticized debate performance, President Biden attempted to draw a distinction between himself and Donald Trump: " I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong." Knowing right from wrong presumes a standard that is universal, not personal. Try arguing with the supermarket cashier that the price for the pound of meat you are trying to buy is not what is written on the label but what you think it should be.
Millions of Americans witnessed far more than simply the implosion of Joe Biden's campaign Thursday. The corruption of the Democrat Party was also laid bare for all of America to see. There's now confirmed evidence that Mr. Biden’s unfitness for office has long been common knowledge among Democrat Party Officials – as well as the nation's sock-puppet media. Democrats have deliberately & intentionally lied to the American Public about who's running the White House – and have redefined the Democrat's idea of "The Big Lie."
“The Supreme Court did the right thing in returning decision making to elected members of Congress – the way the Constitution envisioned it and ending a massive expansion of the regulatory state,” said Sen. Ted Cruz following the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of the so-called Chevron Case precedent set in 1984 that allowed unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to wield power and interpret or set regulations that acted as law, shifting decision making from Congress to the permanent bureaucracy.
The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office, regardless of politics, policy, or party," the opinion states.
As all of America saw during Thursday night's debate, Joe Biden couldn’t solve a Wheel of Fortune puzzle if it were his name – missing only a “B” and the category was “Current Presidents.” It’s hard to pick an example of the Sock-Puppet Press, but I’ll use MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough & the “Morning Joe.” The media outlets are untrustworthy of trust – and evidently they're just plain STUPID as well! Just days ago they swore “In private that Joe Biden's energetic and on the ball – sharp as a tack.” Now the America knows different.
Leaders in Congress knew. Leaders in the White House knew. Even leaders in the sock-puppet media knew – but have been covering it up or lying to the American people for years. Now everyone – even the most hard-core liberal of the Democrat Party's "Remake America" and "Our Democracy" left knows that Joe Biden is in a serious and rapid state of mental decline. If anyone doubted it, last night's debate proved the point: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jung-un, and every petty dictator around the world knows – and Americans have been lied to.
“I watched the debate, and can't remember a more heart-breaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime – precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden has no business running for re-election,” wrote liberal New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. “He had a test to meet to restore the confidence of the country, and he failed,” said former Obama advisor & CNN Analyst Van Jones. It’s impossible to imagine that the man we saw on stage last night is actually running The White House.
Area Development’s annual Shovel Awards recognize states for their achievements in attracting high-value investment projects that will create a significant number of new jobs in their communities. The rankings are based on a combination of weighted factors, including the number of new jobs to be created in relation to the state’s population, the combined dollar amount of the company investments, the number of new facilities, and the diversity of industry represented.
“This investigation appears to bear the markings of a politically-driven prosecution, which has unfortunately been the stock-in-trade of the present Department of Justice. This severe punishment starkly contrasts with the virtual impunity enjoyed by criminals who have fire-bombed Pregnancy Resource Centers and vandalized 100s of churches in the wake of the Dobbs decision," said Sen. Ted Cruz, requesting information relevant to a Texas hospital’s gender transition procedures being performed on children.
"The new Monitoring & Enforcement Plan provides more information on how we plan to utilize the agency’s new technological advancements – and our staff’s expertise – to serve Texans and their communities as the Texas Oil & Gas Industry continues to be a vital element of the state and U.S. economy,” said Danny Sorrells, the Texas Railroad Commission's Deputy Exec. Director and Oil & Gas Director, as Commissioners approved the agency’s Fiscal Year 2025 Plan to protect the environment and Texas' citizens.
Today nonpartisan Save Austin Now PAC is celebrating a U.S. Supreme Court ruling (6-3) that cities holds that have a right to enforce camping bans through an Oregon case, giving new momentum to Prop B, the camping ban which was reinstated in May 2021 by a 58%-42% vote after Save Austin Now spent two years putting the ordinance on the ballot and passing it.
Nearly eleven months ago, in August 2023, the New York Times reported that U.S. officials had estimated that some 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been killed, wounded, or missing in the then 18-month Ukrainian War. Both Russia and Ukraine underreport their losses. In the West, the mere mention of a negotiated settlement is considered a dangerous appeasement of Russia's flagrant aggression. In Russia, anything short of victory would be seen as synonymous with the collapse of the Putin regime.
Make no mistake – America’s are thirsting to know which Presidential Candidate in tonight's debate best understands the real-life issues that currently scare them, hurts them & their families, and frustrates them as they try to go to sleep each night. Whichever candidate best articulates their hopeful ideas, and concisely enunciates their plans to lead the country there, has the best chance of being said to have "Won the Debate." For Donald Trump, Joe Biden – and CNN – the real debate is about the future, not the past.