Scammers have started using the coronavirus pandemic to take advantage of the public.

 The Veterans Land Board is open and ready to serve Veterans.

Approval of Donald Trump’s handling of the CoronaVirus crisis has jumped 10% in less than a week. White House advisers say they've been focusing the president's efforts on responding to the crisis, as opposed to the opposition displayed this week by Senate Democrats & House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

My first priority is ensuring the health and safety of my fellow Texans and stopping this virus so we can get back to our normal lives.

Mac Thornberry (R-Clarendon) released the following statement on the status of negotiations for the third Coronavirus (COVID-19) economic relief package.  

Food banks and nutrition advocates praised the bipartisan passage of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act in Congress.

In order to stabilize markets, a few oil and gas producers have suggested that the Railroad Commission of Texas resume prorating the production of oil.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott instructed the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to waive the waiting week, for Unemployment Benefits.

Gov. Greg Abbott has assured us that Texas is prepared to deal with the CoronaVirus – and to that end, Texans must work together to combat it. Here are some key links and information.

Congressman Kevin Brady (TX-08) statement after sending a letter to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in response to their decision to cancel a public hearing in Navasota, Texas due to COVID-19

"The average car has 30,000 different parts, and a lot of them come from China. If one part's not available in the basket when the conveyor belt's supposed to bring it up... if China didn't make it, it didn't go on the ship. And if it didn't go on the ship – The big thing to note here is the inter-connectivity of our economy," Texas Insider's Economic Council chair Marc Flaster says of the heretofore neglected economic impacts of the CoronaVirus on the U.S. Economy.

A suite of online tools to facilitate filing and on-time payment of taxes can be found on the agency’s website, and a quick reference site has been set up in response to the COVID–19 emergency.

Governor Abbotts announced he is waiving the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) testing requirements for the 2019-2020 school year.

Annual employment growth for Texas was 2.2 percent in January, marking 117 consecutive months of annual growth.

Their decision to remain closed for an extra week following spring break is helpful given the challenges of combatting the coronavirus (COVID-19).

As Democrats move their Sunday two-man debate from Phoenix to Washington, D.C. in reaction to the CoronaVirus, Sanders says, "Maybe this is an issue Joe Biden and I will discuss on Sunday night.”

By a 47% to 35% margin, Likely U.S. Voters believe that the media tends to make the outbreak of diseases like the CoronaVirus sound worse than they really are. Among those who think the threat is being played up for political reasons, 79% give the government positive marks for its actions so far.

A recent POLITICO/Morning Consult Poll says a strong majority of Registered Voters believe it was "a scandal" for Joe Biden’s son Hunter to hold a position with the Ukrainian Gas Company while his father was Vice President and leading U.S. Foreign Policy Initiatives there – while 32% of Independent Voters whose support will be crucial in a General Election say a probe is warranted.

We simply must get the Alamo preservation project right, because what we do now will be with us forever.