At a 0.0% tax rate, the government would collect zero revenue. As the tax rate rose above zero, the government would collect some revenue. At a 100% tax rate, people would earn zero reported income and the government would collect zero revenue. Voila: we’ve just proved the Laffer Curve.

The Texas Attorney General's "Election Integrity Team" has a primary function to serve as a resource for election officials and the public. With agency lawyers, investigators, support staff, as well as resources to ensure the election – which began with early voting on Monday, October 24 – is run transparently and securely, the agency will also monitor alleged violations of the Texas Election Code.   

"Regardless of race, background, or political party, I want all people of faith to know that I will approach the responsibilities of this office with a servant’s heart and be a Land Commissioner for all Texans,” said Senator Dawn Buckingham after the Baptist Ministers Association of Houston & Vicinity endorsed her for Texas Land Commissioner.

"These jobs pay among the highest wages in Texas, and directly contribute to our country's national and energy security," said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil & Gas Association after data was released by the Texas Workforce Commission indicating that the upstream oil and natural gas industry's employment ranks grew by 900 jobs from August to September.

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are corporate administrators of prescription drug benefit programs and serve as the intermediary between drug companies and pharmacies. But state oversight of PBMs is needed to protect consumers. State-level protections have helped safeguard consumers from anti-competitive and abusive trade practices PBMs have engaged in before.

"Designating this important monument as a National Historic Site will ensure the stories and memories of Blackwell students are never forgotten,” said Cong. Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23) at a gathering to commemorate the legislation he & Sen. John Cornyn passed and helped get signed into law to designate the Blackwell School a National Historic Site under the National Park Service.

In President Biden's and the Democrat's America, every state in the nation has become a border state thanks to Joe Biden's open-border agenda White House. Fentanyl is now the #1 Killer of young people in America, and its plague in communities continues to escalate across the nation – and Texas.

The Texas economy has added 721,800 positions since September 2021, and state unemployment declined slightly to 4.0%. “With more than half a million job ads posted right now in Texas, the Texas Workforce Commission remains dedicated to ensuring job seekers have the skills employers need to fill those positions,” said TWC Chairman Bryan Daniel.

“The CDC continues to make recommendations that ignore science, erode public trust, and target Americans’ healthcare freedom. Sadly, too many states will wield this recommendation as a mandate to force children to receive the COVID vaccine in order to attend school. The CDC knows this, but doesn’t care," said Sen. Cruz after the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention voted to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the immunization schedule states use to require routine vaccinations for children to attend school.

“It’s hard to imagine a more dangerous & radical policy than the Biden White House’s decision to allow violent criminals to roam freely in our communities. Congress has mandated that the Executive Branch must detain specific criminal aliens, and when Congress requires the Executive to act, the Executive lacks the authority to disregard that instruction.,” said Texas' Attorney General Ken Paxton.

As part of the statewide Texas Clear Lanes initiative, the $418 million segment aims to increase mobility, reduce congestion, and enhance safety for Loop 1604 drivers through roadway improvements on more than 2.5 miles at the highly traveled Interstate 10 interchange in northwest Bexar County.

In the aftermath of the school shooting tragedy in Uvalde, Texas earlier this year, Congressman Gonzales announced $1,237,426 in funding from the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) & the Office of Community Policing Services (COPS) for School Violence Prevention Programs in the school districts across south & west Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. 

“You can’t open the spigot of our strategic oil reserves – which is meant for national emergencies – to hide your failed energy policies or serve your political purposes," said Congresswoman Mayra Flores, slamming President Biden for continuing to drain the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the White House announced another 15 million barrels would be scheduled for release.

“Google’s indiscriminate collection of the personal information of Texans, including very sensitive information like biometric identifiers, will not be tolerated. I will continue to fight Big Tech to ensure the privacy and security of all Texans,” said Attorney General Paxton of the company's actions, saying it was done without properly obtaining user's informed consent to do so. 

Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to 314,000 migrant apprehensions and more than 20,800 criminal arrests, with more than 18,400 felony charges reported. In the fight against fentanyl, DPS has seized over 337 million lethal doses of fentanyl during this border mission.

“I was proud to recommend these candidates along with Senator Cornyn, and happy to see President Biden has nominated them to serve. All four came through our bi-partisan Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee designed to find nominees with legal excellence and demonstrated integrity," said Sen. Cruz.

“This is just another example of how by all working together, we're taking our districts to new heights while helping our local heroes at Customs & Border Patrol hire more officers,” said South Texas Congresswoman Mayra Flores, introducing her bill to streamline the hiring of new and badly-needed U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Agents.

In under two years, President Biden has created crisis after crisis. In a Republican majority, we'll bring forward solutions that secures the border, curbs wasteful spending, supports Main Street America, and puts America’s best interests first. Our plan creates a new future, and restores a government "For the People, By the People."

In order to conduct Congressional Oversight, the Senators demanded any and all communications between Att. Gen. Merrick Garland (or any other DOJ employee) and the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the Children’s Hospital Association or any of their representatives about minors receiving experimental "gender reassignment" procedures.

The "Green New Deal" agenda is an extreme “Made-in-America” tax that gives unprecedented power to unelected bureaucrats, and its far worse than the problem of reducing emissions or stewarding our environment.