Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, released the following statement regarding Chairman Dave Camp’s decision to not run for reelection: 

By Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima, A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical […]

By Byron York Some conservative political groups have run into trouble making ads that criticize Obamacare. The ads were intended to showcase “horror stories” from the Democrats’ national health care overhaul, but instead attracted zealous fact-checking and ferocious pushback from media outlets and liberal activists.

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded nearly $700,000 to The Civilians, Inc., a Brooklyn, NY theatre company, for a play that is described as “a thrilling and timely production” that is “a highly theatrical look into one of the most vital questions of our time: how can we change […]

“Job growth trends in Texas break with the national pattern (and) has succeeded in producing broad-based job growth in the context of job and wage polarization nationally.”  Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – A recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas noted that Texas experienced more job growth at all pay levels than […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) joined Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Carter (R-TX31) to applaud Customs and Border Protection (CBP), for its significant allocation of additional customs officers to ports along the Texas-Mexico border.  The Fiscal Year 2014 budget provided funds for an additional 2,000 men and women […]

Father and Son Sentenced to Lengthy Federal Prison Sentences on Conspiracy and Health Care Fraud Convictions — Defendants Owned a Physician House Call Company and Billed for Services Not Rendered Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas –DALLAS — Two Grand Prairie men convicted at trial in October 2013 on conspiracy and health care fraud charges related […]

Texas Workforce Commission Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) will host Del Rio-area employers, human resource professionals, business owners and managers at the Texas Business Conference Thursday, April 17 at the Del Rio Civic Center in Del Rio. The conference will provide valuable information for employers and business owners concerning […]

By Thomas Sowell Many people are lamenting the bad consequences of Barack Obama’s foreign policy, and some are questioning his competence. There is much to lament, and much to fear. Multiple setbacks to American interests have been brought on by Obama’s policies in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Crimea and — above all — in what seems almost […]

By Cal Thomas It wasn’t so long ago that conservative Christians believed Hollywood to be evil and some preachers instructed their congregations not to go to movies lest they be tempted beyond their ability to resist. Now Christians are debating film content. That’s progress of a sort. The main complaint from critics of the film “Noah,” […]

By Michael Barone America’s two major political parties are inevitably coalitions, forced by the winner-take-all Electoral College and the need of candidates in single-member congressional districts to amass 50 percent of the vote, or nearly that, to win election. In a nation of America’s cultural variety, that means holding together groups that have different priorities and […]