Lt. Governor David Dewhurst met with members of his staff and four Texas Public Utility Directors after a recent request from Texans Against Smart Meters (TASM). The meeting was called to address issues related to grassroots activists’ concerns about health
House Bill 5 (HB 5) is the education legislation that created the new Texas College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) during the 83rd Legislative Session. Since becoming law, HB 5’s been kicking up a lot of controversy. For starters, HB
The ad opens with a photograph of Sen. Pat Roberts’ home in Alexandria, Virginia and proceeds to a La-Z-Boy recliner in Kansas it says he rents “at a donor’s house. On a golf course.” “Pat Roberts doesn’t live in Kansas,”
They are winning. They are in charge. But who is They? It’s not the Democrats–they have lost the House, probably for many years to come, and they could well lose the Senate this November. And Barack Obama is a very lame duck; does
Despite the national reputation as a reliably red state with a solidly conservative population, Texas’ legislative leadership in Austin does not necessarily share that conservative perspective. The Wall Street Journal recently noted that state government spending in Texas increased 25
Though Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that he had to vote to break Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster against raising the debt ceiling without spending reductions because he had “to protect the country,” McConnell then voted against the bill
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said at a Friday campaign rally that his leadership in helping raise the debt ceiling was an effort to “protect the country.” “We were confronted with a clean debt ceiling in the Senate or
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is expected to receive a “hero’s welcome” when he travels to Iowa and New Hampshire in the coming months after he again stood up against the GOP establishment on the vote to raise the debt ceiling
Rand Paul has an important warning to the Republican Party: change or fail. In a February 13 interview with Glenn Beck, Senator Paul (R, KY) said, “I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime for the presidency unless
Texas gubernatorial hopeful and Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis asserted on Thursday in an interview with statesman.com, “Texas is not really a red state, it’s just a non-voting state.” Davis, who gained notoriety for her 11-hour filibuster against a bill that
Andrew C. McCarthy, writing at National Review Online, criticizes Rand Paul’s lawsuit against the NSA announced this week: In what looks more like a publicity stunt than a serious legal challenge, Senator Rand Paul has filed a class-action lawsuit against
MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrats dream of driving U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell into retirement this year, ridding President Barack Obama of one of his fiercest opponents. Tea partyers have the same dream, but they say the Senate’s Republican leader actually
American Heritage Girls, which is “dedicated to the mission of building women of integrity through service to God, family, community and country,” has introduced a new Respect Life Patch that will serve to emphasize “the organization’s commitment to honoring life
Vladislav Miftakhov, the 18-year-old Russian national who was arrested on January 24 and charged by Pennsylvania authorities with several state felonies for possessing “weapons of mass destruction,” was granted his release on bail Tuesday by a federal judge. The Altoona
On Friday’s “NewsHour” on PBS, New York Times columnist David Brooks hammered Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for forcing a recorded vote on the debt ceiling vote, for which he likened to running into a wall “again and again and again.”
From The Hill: Republicans will lose the White House in 2016 if they nominate a candidate who is a “climate denier,” predicts one Senate Democrat. Speaking on a call set up by Organizing for Action, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) laid
WASHINGTON (AP) — A National Security Agency employee resigned from the agency after admitting to federal investigators that he gave former NSA analyst Edward Snowden a digital key that allowed him to gain access to classified materials, the NSA has
Matt Bevin, campaigning for Kentucky’s Senate seat in the Republican primary, said his signature on a document expressing support for the 2008 Wall Street bailouts was just a formality. But legal experts — including Bevin’s own lawyer — are dismissing
On Thursday’s Hugh Hewitt radio program, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol downplayed any potential consequences of Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) use of parliamentary tactics in this week’s Senate vote to raise the debt ceiling. “[I] think people are overreacting to
As the Washington D.C. area recovers from Winter Storm Pax, here’s a rather interesting statement from Alaskan Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) about climate change’s effect on his state. The Senate hearing about mitigating extreme weather was held yesterday, right before
Viewers of the A&E series Duck Dynasty showed their affection for Phil Robertson after the reality show star was suspended for comments taken as anti-gay. Fans flooded social media with outrage, signed petitions demanding Robertson’s reinstatement and forced A&E to
As they raced to flee the Capitol before an approaching snowstorm, some Republicans were not being too hard on themselves for capitulating and passing a “clean” debt ceiling bill, in the process ending a GOP precedent set to use such
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) may have stopped immigration reform legislation in the House by calling it what it is with one word: “amnesty.” House Republicans who supported the “immigration principles” reportedly “grumbled Tuesday that the plan was dead on arrival
On February 11th, Mississippi representatives overwhelmingly supported legislation protecting the exercise of concealed carry, prohibiting the destruction of firearms obtained through local government buyback programs, and expanding protection against firearm confiscation “during a state of emergency or natural disaster.” According
In response to No Debt Ceiling Battle A Bitter Pill: I truly wish I had confidence that Speaker Boehner and the rest of the leadership would come roaring out of this debt-ceiling capitulation and deliver that focused battle against ObamaCare
