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Illegal Immigration Costs American Taxpayers Nearly Half a Trillion
A new report reveals that taxpayers are losing around $451 billion per year to the border crisis.
Pat Fallon Reverses Course, Will Run for Re-Election in Congress
Fallon had already earned the endorsement of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for his planned return to the Texas Senate.
Tony Gonzales On His Push to Impeach Alejandro Mayorkas
The Republican lawmaker faces multiple primary challenges after being censured earlier this year.
Four Pathways Allow Illegal Aliens to Enter the United States
The Center for Immigration Studies explains how the Biden administration is encouraging the invasion of America.
Federal Archive
Fed Up this Christmas?
Most of us have become fed up by politicians, especially those of the federal variety. With our federal government bloated unrecognizably out of its constitutional bounds, no facet of life has been left untouched, untaxed or unregulated. Gov. Rick Perry's new book,...
Cornyn wrong on Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
Senator John Cornyn wrote this week that: “A balanced budget amendment is necessary because Congress has proven it cannot agree on how to keep total federal spending in line with total federal revenue. Moreover, the president is not even required to propose a budget...
Feds Playing Politics With Drilling?
After being rebuked by federal courts, President Obama's secretary of the interior, former U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO), announced that the ban on offshore drilling would be lifted. Not so, in a practical sense, says Elizabeth Ames Jones, a commissioner on the energy...
Obama “Economic Stimulus” Isn’t Working
The Financial Times recently reported these dismal figures for private sector hiring: “Since the stimulus began, about 400,000 public sector jobs have been added (through May 2010) while 2.7 million private sector jobs were lost.” The National Federation of...
Hey, Big Spender
This week the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste issued their annual Congressional scorecard. Our own U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison improved her score over previous years to be listed as a taxpayer hero. While the state's senior senator continues to...
Left Hook to Voters?
Liberals must see the handwriting on their electoral wall maps. Beyond the present concerns voters have with the Obama administration, the projected changes that will occur as a result of the 2010 Census seem to predict the political landscape will be very favorable...
DC Dems’ political fog on Texas
Given the self-delusional world inhabited by many Liberals, it comes as no surprise that many of them are giddy with a Washington Compost report which claims the race for governor is now a toss-up. The very liberal, and advocacy prone, D.C. Newspaper published this:...
Jones Decries Fed Power Grab
If California Democrat Henry Waxman gets his way, state authority over "oil and gas exploration and production" would be usurped by the federal government. That's how Texas Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones is describing the effects of HR 5626, which is...
Does Congress Really Care About the States?
Tomorrow morning, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and the minority leader of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), will address the National Conference of State Legislatures in Louisville, Kentucky. Wouldn’t it...