Occupation: U.S. Representative Birth: January 14, 1962
We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order ou….
Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?.
We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dange….
On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who pr….
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to ….
Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough.….
In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this hor….
We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border..
I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has ….
This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution. If this happened i….
Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled througho….
The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm ….
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9….
You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law..
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a….
Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families….
I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place..
We're seeing the sort of liberal phenomenon of activists that are speaking out. And they have every right to do so. I think we need to respect that i….
Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to ….
Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these ….
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saud….