The Republican lawmaker faces multiple primary challenges after being censured earlier this year.
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$1.5 Trillion Omnibus Bill Splits Senators Cruz and Cornyn
The bill will increase the federal government’s annual spending by 6 percent.
Van Taylor Drops Re-election Bid After Revelations of Affair
With Taylor removing himself from the runoff ballot, former Collin County Judge Keith Self will become the Republican nominee.
Challengers Force U.S. Rep. Van Taylor into a Runoff
The two-term Republican faces former Collin County Judge Keith Self in a May runoff.
Socialist Austin City Councilman Wins Democrat Nomination for Congress
“The people of Austin will make sure that the people who he needs to support his next adventure know what he has actually done.”
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Gooden to Challenge Electoral College Results
Terrell Republican wants Texas’ U.S. senators to do likewise.
Cruz Opposes ‘Taxpayer Funded Spending Spree’
Texas’ junior senator says a standalone relief package should have been passed months ago.
West: An Attorney’s (and Working Parent’s) 2020 Holiday Legal Wish List
It’s time for each state legislature to resume its proper rule-making authority and for governors (some who don’t even follow their own orders) to rightfully step aside.
Garcia & Retta: The Latino Vote in Texas
Latino voters went to the polls and finally voted for something different. If heavily Latino, deep blue South Texas can see such a shift, perhaps the urban centers are next.
Bovard: A New Coalition, If You Can Keep It
What the changing shape of the Republican base should mean for institutional Republicans.
Norred: Why Worry About a Harris Presidency?
Kamala Harris put people in jail to bolster her stats when she knew of exonerating evidence. She went on full attack and supported attacks on Justice Kavanaugh based on no evidence.
West: Amy Coney Barrett is Texas
Barrett’s Texas-sized grit, toughness, and sensitivity will serve her well when presented with several cases that directly impact civil liberties in my home state of Texas.
VIDEO: Wagons, Suitcases, and Coolers Roll Into Detroit Voting Center at 4 AM [UPDATED]
Poll watcher raises alarms over suspicious activity in Detroit during early morning.
Schlegel: ‘I Voted for Freedom’
“I voted as a woman and as a single mother of three—including one with special needs—who have hope for their future. I voted for them, for their country, for the future.”
Poll: Churchgoing Biden Voters Question the Bible at Alarming Rates
New polling shows church attenders who hold to orthodox views are much more likely to cast a ballot for Trump.
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Big John
Hanging in Sen. John Cornyn’s office is a guitar signed by rockers ZZ Top. Pretty cool. More cool is the way Cornyn has been rocking the U.S. Senate. He forced the hand of the liberals on their global warming scam, and has become a consistent champion of free markets and budget reform in the gang of 100. It’s good to have Big John (video link) fighting in Washington.
New Pig Book Shows Congress is High on the Hog
Citizens Against Government Waste has just released their annual PIG Book cataloging Congress’ waste of tax dollars. It shows there were 11,610 pork projects approved this past year at a cost of $17.2 billion. Among them: $3 million for First Tee, a character-building golfing program, $1.9 million for the Charles Rangel Center for Public Service and $742,764 to fund olive fruit fly research.
March Lobbying Madness with Public Funds
The Center for Responsive Politics has a new bracket comparing the Sweet 16 universities by their federal lobbying expenditures. By this measure, UCLA ($560k) will play UNC ($31Ok) in the Finals – UT-Austin at $200k would be on the sidelines. The bracket is at: https://www.capitaleye.org/img/lobbying_16.gif.
Moore Conservative
One of the strongest voices for fiscal conservativism, and commonsense governance, is Steve Moore. He founded the Club for Growth, and now serves as senior economics writer at the Wall Street Journal, and a writer on the vaunted editorial page.
Giving Us More Gas (Taxes)
Ever heard of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission? Well, they want your money. This quasi-governmental body is suggesting that gasoline taxes be TRIPLED over the next five years. Big Government, not Big Oil, is already the biggest profit-taker on each gallon of gas we buy, but they have so far only managed to waste our money. So, of course, they want even more.
You Say You Want A Revolution
On the night of December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty boarded a ship in Boston Harbor and destroyed the tea – dumping it in the water – as a way to protest the British government’s tax policies.
Tax Equity
More than two dozen members of the Texas Legislature are calling on Congress to maintain the sales tax deduction for Texans on our federal income taxes. Unless Congress acts, we’ll again lose this important protection.
No Headline: Conservatives Press For Sanity
Seventeen members of the Texas House have sent a letter to Texas’ delegation to the U.S. Congress, urging them to sustain the President’s veto of the massive expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Don’t expect the letter to make the newspapers — they only write about socialists endorsing big government.
Cornyn Among Few Senators to Vote Against Pork for Bike Paths, Montana Ballpark, and “Peace Garden”
Texas Senator John Cornyn was one of a handful of U.S. Senators to vote against three separate servings of pork.
Grow Government Today, Pay For It Later
Bad ideas are running rampant in Beantown. I've come to Boston for the National Conference of State Legislators. It should be called the National Conference for Growing Government. By and large, NCSL is a cheerleading session for those legislators, bureaucrats, rent-seekers and assorted hangers-on looking to grow the size and scope of government.
The first panel discussion I attended was illustrative: it was called "Financing State Government in a No New Taxes World."