Senate Democrats, in a preview of the tactics Democrats plan to deploy against incoming president Donald J. Trump, came within two votes of shutting down the federal government in the name of the union coal miners, whose health and pension benefits lose federal support at the end of the year late Friday night.
The president of the Texas Farm Bureau warned ranchers and farmers at the 83rd annual meeting that the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule for waters in the U.S., “if it’s allowed to happen, will hamstring many farmers and ranchers to the extent that it might not even be possible to farm.” Farmers and ranchers in Texas are struggling with government bureaucracy in many areas.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must continue to use National Guard aviation assets funded through Operation Phalanx.
Bipartisan Texas leaders called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to restart the suspended border aerial surveillance program known as Operation Phalanx.
HOUSTON, Texas – Leaders of the nation’s largest red state reached out quickly to congratulate President-Elect Donald J. Trump for his resounding victory.
A top leader in the Republican-majority Senate is signaling his 2017 support for a proposed law to reduce federal prison sentences for drug traffickers.
The U.S. Border Patrol has reclassified the murder of Agent Javier Vega, Jr., to be a “Line of Duty Death” (LODD).
Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were recognized for their courage during a ceremony where they were presented the Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery. The agents were recognized for their actions in saving an illegal immigrant from rapid currents during a 2014 Rio Grande River border crossing.
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) called the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising “absolutely deplorable” in the years since the ranking Republican held up Hillary Clinton’s Senate confirmation over concerns of pay-to-play at her troubled charity.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz visited the Laredo Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border and did not contact Border Patrol agents to discuss their needs. According to the agents, Senator Cruz has yet to contact them through his freshman term in the U.S. Senate.
Officials of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) are marking the 2nd Anniversary of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega, Jr. by pushing a petition to the White House. The petition asks that Vega’s death be classified as being in the line of duty. Vega was allegedly murdered by 2 previously deported illegal aliens who were attempting to rob him and his family who were fishing in the countryside.
Three bipartisan U.S. senators, including Texas senator John Cornyn, have introduced the Remedies for Refusal of Repatriation Act. “Casey’s Law” is named for a young woman who was murdered by a Haitian criminal illegal alien. He was in the country because he had not been deported after he was released from prison.
When House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) allows a gun control vote next week it will be focused on reviving Senator John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) already rejected, post-Orlando gun legislation.
Gun control Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is cheering the decision by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow another vote on gun control by the end of next week.
The Democratic Senate Whip Sen. Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y.) told reporters that the most important thing about the No-Fly-No-Buy amendment proposed by Sen. Susan Collins (R.-Maine) is the opportunity to drive a wedge between the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association.
Donald J. Trump’s best friend on Capitol Hill, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.), told Breitbart News that he is very concerned about Senate Republicans caving in on gun rights.
On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled Senate unanimously approved bi-partisan legislation that would allow for families of the victims of the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia.
Amid a media firestorm surrounding potential Saudi involvement in the planning of the September 11 attacks, President Barack Obama has indicated he will make a decision whether or not to declassify relevant 9/11 documents within 60 days – a move that has observers asking, “Why now?”
After years of bipartisan calls to reform the nation’s mental health system, the Democrats stand opposed to a Republican bill because it puts safeguards in place for gun rights.
Texas’ senior U.S. Senator says that building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is not the solution to border security. John Cornyn said during a tour of the border on Tuesday, “It’s more than just physical obstacles.”
President Barack Obama’s naming Judge Merrick Garland as his pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, has been front and center in the nation’s headlines. Not so high profile was his nomination of five lawyers to serve on federal district court benches in Texas.
In March 2015, President Barack Obama said, “It’s important that veterans know that somebody’s got their backs, and that, if there are problems, that we’re not being defensive about it, not hiding it.” In March 2016, veterans are still having
The Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion today ruling in favor of the Kountze Cheerleaders who had Bible verses on their school football banners. The case has received national media attention.
Texas Republicans were quick to condemn President Obama’s violation of the Second Amendment through his unconstitutional executive action on gun control.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to help Texas property owners in their battle with the Bureau of Land Management over 90,000 acres of land. The White House has threatened to veto the bill which now moves on to the Senate.
A whistleblower alleges that the government has been placing unaccompanied children apprehended illegally entering the country in the care of sponsors who have criminal records, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
Two Christian daycare workers fired for refusing to call a six-year-old girl a boy are fighting back. They have hired legal counsel and are going to sue. One of the workers was fired from a Houston area school the day the Houston “bathroom ordinance” was soundly defeated by voters. The other worker was fired the Thursday before.
Texas Senator John Cornyn took to the floor of the U.S. Senate last week to join in the call to have the murder of Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega classified as a line-of-duty death. The move, if approved, would bring additional benefits to the family left behind after this agent was gunned down during a robbery attempt.
The U.S. Senate failed to come up with the required 60 votes needed to move forward with the Sanctuary City Bill.
The United States Senate will finally vote on a bill defunding sanctuary cities across America and two Texas cities could land right in the crosshairs of this battle. The vote on the “Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act,” (S. 2146) is scheduled for a motion to proceed vote on Tuesday afternoon.
Although Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is currently pushing so-called “criminal justice reform,” a euphemism for releasing criminals from prison after the smoldering aftermath of race riots of Ferguson and Baltimore, back in 2011 he condemned former Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony supporting retroactive sentencing reductions.
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
Republican politicians have spent so long living in an environment controlled by the leftist media that they believe every narrative will be turned to their disadvantage. This is why Republican leadership buys into the idiotic notion that if Republicans fund the entire federal government except Planned Parenthood, and Obama then refuses to sign the budget, they will be blamed for the shutdown. That is not fully true.
In an appearance on Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” radio show on AM 970 in New York City, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) made the argument to host John Catsimatidis that a special counsel is needed to investigate any possible wrongdoing involving former Secretary of
On August 5, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced legislation that encourages states to more readily submit information on people with mental health problems to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sunday evening, something remarkable—a little bit insider-y in Washington, but remarkable nonetheless—happened: The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, his entire leadership team, and most of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate voice voted through measures to fund Planned Parenthood in its entirety and to help protect President Barack Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran.
Today, if law enforcement wants to read our physical mail or search our safe deposit box, they need a search warrant. This fundamental right to privacy is established in the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But currently, national and international privacy protection is not adequately applied to email and data stored on cloud computing servers. This needs to change—and a solution is at hand, if Congress will only move forward.
When Senate Republicans changed the name of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights to the simpler Subcommittee on the Constitution this past January, Democrats pounced, claiming that the name change meant that Republicans did not care about civil rights or human rights. Wednesday, the Subcommittee, led by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), will hold its first official hearing on a human rights issue that should be supported by Democrats: the testing of the nationwide backlog of rape kits.
Three Republican lawmakers from Texas issued statements on their official websites condemning Sunday’s terrorist attack on a “Draw Muhammad” event in Garland as an assault on freedom of expression.
U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh announced that the Army will provide “all possible benefits” to victims of the 2009 Fort Hood Shooting. The announcement comes less than one week after the Army presented Purple Heart medals to 36 soldiers and family members of those who were killed in the shooting.
