"Yesterday, another Federal Court announced what Texans & Americans have known all along: President Biden's open border policies are – in the words of Judge Wetherell – 'akin to posting a flashing Come In We’re Open sign on the Southern Border,'" said Gov. Greg Abbott, responding to a U.S. Federal Judge's ruling that the Biden White House has been violating Federal Law by releasing illegal immigrants en masse at our Southern Border.
The legislation mandated an end to a longstanding military service academy rule that forced pregnant female students to permanently withdraw from the academies, give up legal custody of their children, or abort the child, and forced male students that fathered a child to choose between giving up legal custody or withdrawing.
Texas added 48,600 positions in January 2023, reaching 13,782,300 total nonfarm jobs. This marks the 16th consecutive record employment high based on a revision to the December 2022 report. Since January 2022, 654,100 jobs have been added in Texas, marking an annual growth rate of 5.0 percent.
What's common to the pandemic of smash-&-grab, carjacking, fighting on airliners while in flight, and deadly Saturday night shoot-outs, is that there's an apparent assurance for law-breakers that there'll be no consequences for their actions. And why wouldn't thugs and law-breakers believe this – after 120 days of rioting, looting, arson & assault in the summer of 2020's "mostly peaceful protests" there were few Antifa indictments, fewer convictions, and almost no imprisonments?
"With over 820 miles of the Southern Border located in my district, this is the epicenter of the Border Crisis,” said Texas Cong. Tony Gonzales. “Through meetings with Local Law Enforcement, Border Patrol Agents and landowners, we were able to see yet again the challenges & frustrations Americans face every day," said Gonzales while leading a group of his fellow Congressmen through Eagle Pass & Uvalde, Texas.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today he will be sending Cities, Counties, Transit Systems & Special Purpose Taxing Districts across Texas $1 billion in Local Sales Tax Allocations for March – which is up 9.9% when compared to March 2022. These "allocations" are based on sales made during the month of January 2023, and are often seen as an indication of the direction of present, and/or future economic trends.
After having previously sent letters to CVS and Walgreens warning them that both Federal Law and several States’ Laws expressly ban using the mail to distribute dangerous abortion-inducing drugs, Texas Attorney General Ken and some 20 other states have joined together to notify Albertsons, Costco, Kroger & Walmart that shipping abortion pills in the mail is illegal. You can read their letters to each company in this article.
About the "much criticized" Rasmussen Poll that's been in the news as the woke-leftist media killed the Dilbert Cartoon – it asked American Adults: "Do you agree or disagree with this statement: 'It is OK to be white.'" In response, 53% of Black American adults strongly or somewhat agreed, 26% strongly or somewhat disagreed, and 21% said they were "not sure." The white male creator of the popular "Dilbert" comic strip thought that was concerning.
“The withdrawal of Ms. Sohn’s nomination is a major victory, and represents a strong bi-partisan agreement that we need a fair and impartial candidate who can receive Senate confirmation. The FCC is not a place for partisan activists; free speech is too important. Now, it’s time for the Biden White House to put forth a nominee who can be confirmed by the Senate as an even-handed, independent regulator," said Cruz.
“Our country is premised on freedom – and that freedom as it concerns raising children rests the most in parents,” said Governor Abbott. "And we'll do that with our 'Parental Bill of Rights.' No one knows what's better for a child's success than their parents, and when it comes to education, parents matter," said the governor Tuesday evening during another of his 'Parent Empowerment Nights' – this one in Bryan, Texas.
“Signed by 30 Texas Senators, SB 1817 makes it clear where Texas stands when it comes to Totalitarian Regimes like Russia – that wage war on Democracies without reason or provocation.” said Texas State Sen. Paul Bettencourt. “Comptroller Hegar's literally done 99% of the divestment and should be lauded for it. However, we must take the final step to protect Texas Taxpayers from this violent dictatorship,” said Bettencourt.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today he is distributing the first round of payments from the "Opioid Abatement Trust Fund," with an initial transfer of $47.1 million to cities and counties to address the opioid-related harm in their communities. These transfers will continue over many years based on the terms of the Statewide Opioid Litigation Settlement Agreements.
President Biden announced he'd not veto a resolution passed by the Republican-controlled House to overturn a new District of Columbia "crime reform" law, assuming the resolution passes the Senate. As a result – in a major woke Democrat's defeat – a shell-shocked chair of the left-wing D.C. City Council now says he's pulling the bill that reduces sentencing on many felonies, including carjackings and burglaries.
Following President Biden’s directive – issued in the wake of a Supreme Court decision – the U.S. Food & Drug Administration opted to promote an extreme abortion agenda by ignoring Federal Law barring abortion drugs such as mifepristone from being sent through the mail. Compounding the violation of federal law is the fact that the FDA’s approval of mifepristone contradicts the agency’s own regulations.
Representative Carrie Isaac filed two separate bills that will ensure improved stewardship of the Texas Hill Country – and of Texas. House Bill 3658 will require aggregate and concrete batch operators to conduct fence-line or property-line monitoring of emissions from their facilities, and House Bill 3624 incentivizes aggregate miners and concrete plant operators to have reclamation plans for their mines.
Each year, the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo – the world's largest event of its kind with more than 34,000 livestock and horse show entries – honors various public Law Enforcement, Firefighters, EMS and other Emergency Service Agencies in the Houston Area. Governor Abbott recognized 16 award recipients – 15 Texans and one group organization – for their selfless leadership, heroism, and sacrifice to their fellow Texans.
Make no mistake: This threat of violence is very real. Organized groups targeting Supreme Court Justices with protest outside their homes to pressure them into changing their rulings is spiraling out of control – despite the fact that such harassment violates a Federal Law. President Biden's unwillingness to punish those who violate the law in a targeted way is encouraging those on the left who support political violence.
For the umpteenth time: The United States is not the problem – China is. The U.S. has reduced our pollution emissions more than any other nation on the face of the earth, the "problem" continues, and Democrats can do nothing but blame the U.S. – why is that? China's pollution levels are three times higher than ours, and soon India will pass the U.S. in carbon emissions. Biden & The Left are knee-capping our Energy Industry!
