Governor Greg Abbott today announced Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) will establish a new pharmaceutical manufacturing campus in Houston, with a capital investment of approximately $2.3 billion that will create nearly 500 new jobs. A Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant of $4.89 million has been extended to Bristol Myers Squibb. The expansion is also a qualified project under the Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation (JETI) program.
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) introduced the Right to Worship Act. This legislation protects Americans' First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion by establishing a 100-foot protection zone that prohibits conduct disrupting scheduled religious services or impeding attendance.
While every American is familiar with the fireworks and BBQs of the 4th of July, many people are unaware of the day in July dedicated to recognizing the service and sacrifices of Korean War Veterans: National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day on July 27th. This remembrance marks the anniversary of the 1953 armistice agreement signed by the United States, North Korea, and the People’s Republic of China, which ended the short but violent conflict.
Reentering the workforce presents significant challenges for formerly incarcerated individuals. At the same time, Texas employers face persistent labor shortages due to the state’s tremendous economic growth. Hosted by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), the Growth through Reentry to Advance Careers & Employment (GRACE) Conference is your opportunity to learn how second-chance hiring can strengthen your workforce while providing a fresh start for formerly incarcerated individuals.
New inventions and technologies, from the lightbulb to the farm tractor to the automobile to the laptop computer to Uber drivers, cause serious job market disruptions. They also cause a backlash, as horse and buggy operators, cab drivers, video rental stores, and typewriter makers inevitably predicted chaos and job losses. Artificial intelligence will make life much better and healthier for most people, but it will bring massive disruptions, too.
In February, a Texas woman named Emily Sutton picked up her phone and found herself talking to an AI-generated voice. It asked her a series of questions about injuries she might have suffered, and after she'd said the questions didn't apply to her, it kept asking more questions. When she asked who was calling, the voice named a Michigan personal injury operation, and read off its address. The call was one of 1,000s placed by an automated platform working off a purchased lead list.
Governor Abbott has made public safety a top priority. He’s signed into law the strongest bail reform package in Texas history, expanded resources for local law enforcement, and directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to target repeat violent offenders. The consistent decline in the crime rate reflects the results of those priorities and build on the Governor’s commitment to protecting law-abiding Texans by ensuring dangerous criminals remain behind bars where they belong.
President Trump took action this week to defend the integrity of American citizenship, signing two Executive Orders to protect birthright citizenship from abuse and put an end to birth tourism. American citizenship is more than a legal status. It represents a sacred bond between the American people and our Nation and carries profound rights, privileges, and responsibilities. It should never be exploited by malign foreign actors or those seeking to manipulate our immigration laws for their own benefit.
The more the Democrat Party's growing list of Socialists claim they're not really "Socialists," the more they act like — and now even appear comfortable with being called — Communists. With every new policy they propose, the "Socialists" are dropping the pretense that they're not Marxists. Confiscate private property? Dismantle the U.S. Constitution? They are even now openly bragging that when they take over the Democrat Party and the Nation, they'll destroy the U.S. Senate, the Pentagon, prisons & the police – even our Nation's Borders.
Arizona's largest county, Maricopa County in which Phoenix is located, suffered a significant breach of its Election Data in the days before the 2020 Presidential Election. A self-described hacker foiled security and obtained access to a massive trove of the county's Voter Registration Files, but the Biden Justice Department declined to bring charges – even after the FBI got the suspect to confess. On Thursday, the Trump White House's Government Transparency Task Force declassified, and made public the documents.
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines is reminding Texas Parents & Shoppers they can save money on a long list of clothes and various Back-to-School supplies during the state’s sales tax holiday this Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 7-9. State law exempts sales tax on qualified items — such as clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks priced below $100 — saving shoppers about $8 on every $100 they spend. The dates of the Sales Tax Holiday and list of tax-exempt items are set by the Texas Legislature.
Recently the Trucking Association Executives Council (TAEC) released a progress report documenting significant federal and state action to remove illegal operators, strengthen regulatory oversight and restore fairness for trucking companies and professional drivers that follow the rules. The Texas Trucking Association (TXTA) is a member of TAEC, and TXTA President and CEO John D. Esparza serves on the action committee that helped develop the report.
Let's play a fun little game of "what does 'sign' actually mean," shall we? Because Dr. Anthony Fauci just spent a Senate hearing invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times — one hundred and eleven, an Olympic gold medal in constitutional dodging — and buried underneath that spectacle is a question that's far more interesting than anything Fauci actually said, which was, of course, nothing. Was his blanket pardon from Joe Biden even valid in the first place? And if it wasn't, does the Fifth Amendment even apply to a man who might not be pardoned at all?
Governor Greg Abbott today announced Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO) will establish a new strategic hub in Austin to drive innovation, emerging technology, and the next phase of the firm's growth. The hub will incubate new and emerging businesses across Apollo's asset management and retirement solutions platform, intended to represent meaningful capital investment with significant job creation.
Democrats have proven that they will stop at nothing to block attempts at passing voter ID laws. CA attorney general Bonta had originally described Proposition 39, as a measure to "establish additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements." But his new description reads: "PROHIBITS CITIZENS FROM VOTING UNLESS THEY PRESENT GOVERNMENT-ISSUED IDENTIFICATION." Bonta is required by law to provide a "true and impartial" title and summary. His change makes a mockery of that duty.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, chaired a hearing titled Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America. The hearing examined the Muslim Brotherhood’s efforts to seize influence inside American nonprofits, political organizations, universities, courts, taxpayer-funded programs, and other American institutions.
Only 25 years after the September 11 attacks on the United States, a major political party has fallen in with people who view that attack as deserved and the attackers as righteous. If it were parody, no one would accept it because good parody is based in truth and the truth is this fall of the Democratic Party is not believable. Sure, they’ve expressed sympathies for enemies of the United States before, but always for political advantage only; now they appear to mean it or are so afraid of it they won’t say anything to the contrary. Democrats have gone from being wrong to being an existential threat to the country.
Reality for the Democrats isn't pretty right now – which is the main reason they don't spend much time in it. The Democrat Party is in free-fall – and things aren't going to be getting anytime soon. The "Democratic Socialists of America" (DSA) have brought the Democrat's deep-rooted Commie-Leanings out in the open. Party elders would like to put the Hammer & Sickle cat back in the bag before the midterms and pretend that none of this ever happened – but, the pesky Nouveau Stalin Kids in the DSA are... just getting louder.
