Texas Governor Greg Abbott asked former U.S. Representative Blake Farenthold (R-TX) to pay for the cost of the special election forced by his resignation. Farenthold announced his exit following a revelation that he used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim.
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX), who had already announced his plan not to seek re-election after accusations of “sexual harassment,” went further and resigned Friday, effective immediately.
Thursday during a press conference, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) was making the “right decision” to not seek re-election in the 2018 midterm election amid harassment allegations. Ryan said, “I had a couple of conversations
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) will not seek re-election for a fifth term, announcing his decision Wednesday under pressure from a “harassment” settlement concerning no sexual contact but a propensity for lewd jokes and insults.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Representative Mia Love (R-UT) called on Representative Blake Farenthold (R-TX) to resign over his $84,000 sexual harassment settlement. Love said that she is frustrated that taxpayer money was used in the settlement, and touted
Tuesday after a Senate Committee of Appropriations meeting, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) was caught on a hot mic calling Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) “unattractive.” Collins was responding to Farenthold saying “female senators from the Northeast” are responsible for blocking the
Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) said he was open to the possibility that the “intrusion” into the Democratic National Committee’s servers that resulted in thousands of emails being released through Wikileaks last year prior to the start
The panel of judges presiding over the Texas redistricting case has ordered the Lone Star State to a redistricting trial on July 10. The trial will be over plans passed in June 2013. The trial is being expedited because of the 2018 election deadlines.
Two federal judges have ruled that Texas lawmakers drew congressional maps to discriminate against minority voters, especially Hispanics. The dissenting judge countered that the ruling is “fatally infected, from start to finish, with the misunderstanding that race, rather than partisan advantage,” was the intent behind the 2011 maps.
Two federal judges have released an opinion that accuses Lone Star State legislators of drawing a congressional map in a “rushed and secretive process” that intended to discriminate against Hispanic and Democrat voters. The only problem says the dissenting jurist–the panel could not legally issue the decision because the Fifth Circuit made clear that after Texas repealed the 2011 plan, “the case became moot and eliminated the district’s jurisdiction.”
Tuesday night on MSNBC’s “All In,” while discussing the lewd comments Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made while being recorded in 2005 on a hot microphone, Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) got into a heated exchange. Partial transcript as follows: HAYES:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — FBI Director James Comey indicated to lawmakers that average Americans or government employees, including those at his agency, who are found to be extremely careless in handling highly classified information like Hillary Clinton was would be “in trouble,” but not prosecuted.
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.
On December 17, Assistant Homeland Secretary Alan Bersin said he had not heard about the effort to use the no-fly list for gun control background checks and suggested any effort to do so would be “apples and oranges.”
The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) unanimously thinks that House investigators should dismiss the sexual harassment inquiry into Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold.
Two members of the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee arrived in Laredo on Sunday for a briefing about a Customs and Border Protection helicopter that made an emergency landing after taking fire from the Mexican side of the border. They will be meeting on Sunday and Monday with officials from the Air Branch and Marine Branch Sector Headquarters.
FALFURRIAS, Texas — A backlog of nearly 400,000 immigration cases before administrative immigration judges has led to a virtual state of amnesty. Immigrants released into the country on a Notice to Appear document may wait years before being called to
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) criticized protests against the busing of illegal immigrants to locations across the United States as “uninformed” in an appearance on Wednesday’s “Daily Rundown” on MSNBC. Farenthold said “there’s a facility that houses several hundred of these
FORT WORTH, Texas–During the Texas State Republican Convention, Breitbart Texas interviewed Congressman Blake Farenthold, a Republican representing Texas’ 27th Congressional District, about criminal justice reform, an issue that has been gaining prominence recently among conservatives, and earning bipartisan support in
Twenty-four members of the Texas Congressional Delegation joined forces to demand the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launch in Inspector General Investigation into allegations that employees at three Central Texas VA facilities manipulated medical appointment data in order to conceal
Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, has introduced a bill that would officially stop paying any federal employee who was currently held in contempt of Congress. Farenthold specifically mentioned Attorney General Eric Holder after introducing the legislation in the House of Representatives,
Representatives Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Blake Farenthold (R-TX) weigh in on the House process and actions.
O’Donnell praises Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) for not voting for a constitutionally dubious bill proposed by GOP Leader Cantor, but is strangely silent when Rep. Farenthold makes an even more aggressive point about the unconstitutionality of a bill passed by
What we’re witnessing in the south Texas (TX-27 – Corpus Christi and Brownsville) Congressional recount that followed the race is a dramatic interpretation of the old Rocky and Bullwinkle magic act. With 28-year just defeated Democrat incumbent Solomon Ortiz portraying