On March 13th, 2024, Cong. Tony Gonzales (TX-23) wrote President Biden and Dept. of Homeland Security Sect Alejandro Mayorkas requesting detailed information regarding how many potential criminals were being released into our nation's local communities. Last Thursday evening, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Director Patrick Lechleiter responded: as of July 2024, 662,566 illegal immigrants awaiting a hearing on ICE’s legal dockets have a criminal history.
Governor Greg Abbott today issued a proclamation calling for a statewide moment of silence at 7:00 AM CDT on Monday, October 7th, 2024, to honor the victims whose lives were tragically taken due to the acts of war committed by the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, and to remember those who are still being held hostage to this day. Gov. Abbott will lower the Texas and U.S. flags to half-staff next Monday, and asked religious leaders to light a candle at their next service in observance of this solemn day.
We keep hearing a lot about how America First conservatives, the faction of the Republican Party that took power in the wake of the utter failure of the GOP establishment, keep nominating terrible candidates. It’s the lame rationalization of people who want the power back that we stripped from them because of their gross incompetence, corruption, and condescension. Don’t buy it.
“If she was truly serious about addressing the Border Crisis, she would have done something about it as the sitting Vice President... For three and a half years, the Vice President has been in a position to address this crisis – but instead, she's ignored it," said first-term Mexican-American Cong. Juan Ciscomani, a Republican who represents Arizona's 6th Congressional District. "Border communities that have been calling for help,” Ciscomani said, noting that the region is less safe since Joe Biden opened the border in 2021.
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced The Advancing Research in Nuclear Fuel Recycling Act. The bill requires the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Academy of Science to create an independent committee of experts to study recycling the country’s spent nuclear fuel. The DOE-commissioned study would evaluate the cost, benefits, and risks of recycling our spent nuclear fuel compared to the status quo of interim storage.
Governor Greg Abbott today announced 36 Fund for Veterans’ Assistance (FVA) grants totaling more than $8.6 million were awarded to 32 organizations in Dallas-Fort Worth and the North Texas region as part of the Texas Veterans Commission’s (TVC) Grants Across Texas presentations. Presented by TVC today, the funding will provide services to more than 10,900 veterans and their families across 30 counties.
"I joined my colleagues on the House Oversight & Accountability Committee. Tuesday, I chaired my Subcommittee on Government Operations & the Federal Workforce to oversee the egregious spending habits of the Department of Defense, and am carefully watching as taxpayers deserve transparency in how their hard-earned dollars are being spent to support them. The DOD is the only federal agency unable to achieve a clean audit," said Cong. Pete Sessions.
With a rapidly growing population and economy, it is vital Texas remains powered. Texas set a daily power consumption record six times in May 2024, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas anticipates the state's growth will continue to push power consumption to new highs. This growing demand necessitates a diverse energy portfolio that can meet the needs of our state with reliable and dispatchable power.
An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover. Closer to the actual voting, Biden sought to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt owed to the federal government. He also began draining the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices (as he is doing again this election year as well).
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced the Regional Impact of Disasters and Emergencies Relief (RIDER) Act to improve access to and delivery of federal relief to disaster-struck communities. This bipartisan, bicameral bill would amend existing law to better address the on-the-ground experiences of communities affected by major disasters. Reps. Brian Babin (R-Texas-36) and John Garamendi (D-Calif.-8) introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
The lawsuit follows comments previously submitted by Commissioner Buckingham to the USFWS more than a year ago outlining inconsistencies with listing the DSL as endangered and how moving forward with this classification "could have a crippling impact on the oil and gas industry" which will result in job losses across the state and decreased revenue for the Permanent School Fund (PSF) and Permanent University Fund (PUF).
The House Republicans brought up H.R. 7909, the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, which amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make illegal immigrants who are convicted of, who admit having committed, or who admit committing sex offenses or domestic violence inadmissible and deportable from the United States.
This biennial award honors women in state service who are helping to shape the future of Texas by contributing their notable talents and skills. Candidates were nominated by their respective state agency leadership in four categories, and an independent committee selected the women whose contributions best exemplified the categories of leadership, professional development, community involvement, and rising star.
Price controls remain bad policy, whether proposed by people we like or do not like, Democrats or Republicans, Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump. Harris blames the inflation triggered by the irresponsible Biden-Harris government spending on "corporate greed." Without evidence, she accuses grocery stores of ripping off helpless consumers by jacking up prices.
Kamala Harris – bolstered by a biased news media – is attempting to rewrite her four-year record as Vice President of the United States. But new polling shows a majority of voters blame her for a number of the Domestic & International failures of the Biden White House. By double-digits, Americans say Kamala Harris is "at least partially responsible for" crippling inflation, the Border Crisis & massive Illegal Immigration – and over 50% think the next president should be a departure from Joe Biden’s failed agenda.
A new report by Just the Facts Research & Educational Institute has gone viral with influential political organizations, news outlets, and websites suddenly citing its work. This includes U.S. Senator Mike Lee, the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky, and a post on X by Elon Musk with over 24 million views. Based on 2022 Survey Data and an enhanced version of a stress-tested methodology from a Scholarly Journal, the Just Facts Report finds that 10% to 27% of Non-Citizen Adults in the U.S. are illegally registered to vote.
As national polling shows Kamala Harris upside down on the issues of handling Inflation, Family Finances & Job Security – and as those issues continue to chip away at household incomes while unemployment persists – the latest "Consumer Confidence" survey released today showed a collapse in September with the largest monthly decline since August 2021. The drop in confidence was steepest for consumers aged 35 to 54, and Donald Trump leads Harris 54% to 41% on who would better handle the economy in the future.
"The Israeli government has the right and obligation to respond and protect the Israeli people, and it imperative for that the Biden-Harris administration to reverse its policy of equivocating between Israel and Hezbollah and for the United States to unequivocally stand with our Israeli allies as they respond to the attacks Iran has been waging through Hezbollah,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, who serves as amember of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
