From Congress Bill Flores  “. . . we are fighting to create a less costly, more efficient, and more accountable federal government. . . “ Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The primary topics on most Americans’ minds at this time are the federal government shutdown that began on October 1st and the debt ceiling […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, DC . . . This morning, Rep. Ralph Hall (TX-04) attended the Million Veterans March at the World War II Memorial. The rally, with location points across the Nation, met to draw attention to the Administration’s unfair treatment of veterans with its decision to barricade open-air memorials during the government shutdown. […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Gov. Rick Perry today visited Lake Travis to encourage public support of Proposition 6 to fund the state water plan. As a result of the current drought, Lake Travis now sits just six feet above its historic low level, leaving large swaths of land normally covered by water now […]

Date to be determined for release of all statistical employment data Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — As a result of the federal government shutdown, the September labor market data for Texas, including the total nonfarm jobs and the unemployment rate, will be postponed from the previously scheduled date of Oct. 18, 2013, the Texas […]

Consumers Have No Constitutional Protection From Facial Recognition Steven C. Bennett Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Over the past decade, marketers have increasingly relied on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) to create personalized advertisements. FRT depends on complex algorithms to identify a person by measuring the size, angle, and distance between a person’s facial features. […]

Corpus Christi Doctor Indicted in $1.4 Million Healthcare Fraud Scheme Roque Joel Ramirez, M.D. is accused of billing Medicare and Medicaid for services he never provided Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (CORPUS CHRISTI) – A Corpus Christi-area physician has been charged in a 14-count indictment for a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through fraudulent […]

By Cameron Smith President Obama’s reluctance to negotiate with Republicans concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is not surprising. The President and Democrat leaders confidently believe that since they did not need to compromise with Republicans to pass the most partisan piece of major legislation in the last hundred years they should not have […]

By Susan Crabtree  Sen. Rob Portman, a key player on federal budget matters, predicted Sunday that the deeply divided Congress would this week come up with a short-term solution to re-open the government and avoid sending the government into default. Appearing on NBC‘s “Meet the Press,” Portman, R-Ohio, said Congress would likely reach a deal […]

By Brian Hughes President Obama spoke over the phone with House-minority-leader”>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Sunday, as the two leaders continue to insist on a so-called clean funding bill and debt ceiling increase amid little progress on Capitol Hill.

Predicts More Stimulus for Wall Street, More Uncertainty for Main Street Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, released the following statement on President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Janet Yellen as the next […]

By Katie Kieffer I realize Obama is quite busy playing fetch with Bo and Sunny. However, I hope he has a few moments to consider turning on the fountain at the WWII Memorial and un-barricading the remaining war memorials on the National Mall. Our veterans of WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are aging. […]

By Star Parker We ought to think about the cultural roots of the budget crisis in Washington. The political left says the shut down is all about an ideological tantrum of a handful of Republicans. Certainly Tea Partiers have an ideology and vision about what ground rules would produce a more prosperous, freer, and fairer […]

By Sandra J. Saunders To some outside California, Gov. Jerry Brown always will be kooky Gov. Moonbeam, no matter what he does. To California Democrats, however, Brown is the political mastermind who persuaded voters to approve a ballot measure to increase taxes — no small feat, considering that 65 percent of voters rejected a similar […]

Gov. Perry, on Resignation of Chancellor Hance Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – “Chancellor Kent Hance’s decision to step down as head of the Texas Tech University System marks the end of an incredible era, not just for the System, but for higher education in Texas. Thanks to his leadership, higher education is more affordable […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate passed H.J.Res. 91, the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act.  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) called up the bill in the Senate and succeeded in passing it.  The bill passed the House of Representatives 425-0 and now awaits the President’s signature.

“The House continues to work to fund critical parts of the federal government. . . “ Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since October 7, the House of Representatives has passed the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act, the Flight Safety Act, the Head Start for Low-Income Children Act, the Federal Worker Pay Fairness […]

White House ‘Playing politics with our soldiers is disgusting’ Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, DC – “Why would the White House refuse to pay families whose loved one died while serving our nation? Playing politics with our soldiers is simply disgusting,” said U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican whose brother is an Iraq war veteran […]

Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh attacked survey results released on Wednesday that blamed Republicans for the federal shutdown while burying the news that President Barack Obama’s approval ratings had plunged to 37 percent among Americans surveyed.