Though the 2020 election is more than a year away, we can already see that the state of Texas is going to be the key to determining whether the Republicans will have a chance to reclaim the House majority next year or if Democrats will actually expand their conference...
With the House beginning the impeachment inquiry, it is a good time to overlay the political map regarding those Democratic members who may find themselves in a difficult position as a result of this procedure. In all, President Trump carried 31 congressional...
House Democrats are moving forward on efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, and Republicans in Congress are fighting back by calling for the removal of a leading Democrat from the House Judiciary Committee. On Tuesday, Congressman Lance Gooden, a freshman...
In a calculated bid to put Texas elections under federal control, congressional Democrats traveled to Brownsville Monday looking to create a case that the state is so riddled with racial discrimination it can’t be trusted to enact voting laws without approval from...
Voters in Harris County are being disenfranchised because the county’s voter registrar is not following proper procedure, State Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R–Houston) said in a press conference today announcing a recent Texas Secretary of State opinion on the matter....
Many people watching last week’s hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary were surprised to glimpse U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston) caught slyly passing an envelope to one of the attorneys representing Christine Blasey Ford. Her office has now...
Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) sponsored an amendment to reduce the salary of an out of control bureaucrat to $1. The amendment would have reinstated the 19th Century Holman Rule, which Democrats rescinded in 1983 when they held the majority. The...
The day after Memorial Day, US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to social media to promote protesting during the National Anthem. As you might recall, she’s not exactly well-regarded as it is. She has claimed the US Constitution is 400 years old, and...
Congressional Republicans and Democrats actively colluded last week to spend even more of your money in Washington, D.C. in the omnibus funding bill. The swamp has declared war on taxpayers. It is sickening to think that the Democrats got more spending out of a...
A budget-busting, bipartisan spending binge passed Congress last week, so I’d like to propose a topic for this week’s Texas Congressional Delegation luncheon: What is each Texan’s oversight and legislative plan to shrink the number of federal...
In Swamp Country, there is a fight between Obama appointee Leandra English and President Trump to lead the bureaucratic, inefficient, and unconstitutional Consumer Financial Protection Board. (I’ve previously stated we should get rid of all unconstitutional...
Texas’ delegation to the US House voted down party lines for the historic tax cut on Thursday. Authored by US Rep. Kevin Brady (R-The Woodlands) who chairs the Ways and Means Committee, the measure is designed to lower rates and simplify the federal tax code. On this...
The president of Empower Texans and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility recently sent an open letter to Texas’ congressional delegation asking them to stop the health insurance tax from taking effect on Jan. 1, 2018. The text of the letter can be found below....
Illegal aliens might be the biggest beneficiaries of the GOP “replacement” to ObamaCare proposed by the Republican leadership in the U.S. House. Is your Republican congressman going to let that happen on Thursday? Very possibly. Members of Congress are poised to vote...
