The Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced that the substance found in the van following an ICE officer-involved shooting was not drugs. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas previously stated that bags containing a “white crystal-like substance” were found in the van and were being tested in a possible narcotics trafficking and drug offenses investigation.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell pointedly declined to defend the establishment view that immigration is a boon for the economy and more immigration even better.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) stated that former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies created “a lot of built-up bottleneck,” which she said led people who want to seek asylum to “find other ways to come across” due to obstacles like Title 42 and Remain in Mexico.
Representative Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” that Republican lawmakers are putting the NRA “before children’s lives” by not voting for gun legislation.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) argued that handguns “are not for hunting. They’re not for protection. I think handguns are, frankly, for killing people. We need to do something about making sure that bad
President Joe Biden struggles to read his speech on Friday as he botched the names of Democrat members of Congress and asked, “What am I doing here?”
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the “I Am Vanessa Guillén Act” to reform the way the military handles sexual harassment cases.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) delivered the most prolonged opening argument amongst the Democrat impeachment managers, according to data released Saturday.
House Democrats claimed Friday afternoon in President Donald Trump’s Senate trial that his comments on Twitter, in press conferences, and at campaign rallies criticizing the impeachment inquiry were evidence of impeachable “obstruction.”
House impeachment managers inadvertently made the case for the Senate to call former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, as witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Thursday — if witnesses are called.
Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump subscribed to the “debunked conspiracy theory” that Ukraine, “rather than Russia,” interfered in the 2016 presidential election. VERDICT: FALSE. The two are not mutually exclusive.
The Texas Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform and Relief was in Houston on Tuesday taking testimony from Texans affected by the strain of rising property taxes and the burdensome appraisal process.
The Texas Senate Health and Human Services committee began their investigation on aborted baby body part sales and questioned witnesses at the state Capitol for over four hours on Wednesday. The committee met to examine the business practices and regulatory structure of Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas, and to investigate whether state or federal laws were broken with regard to the donation and/or sale of fetal tissue.
The Texas Senate passed a bill on Tuesday which would protect the rights of certain religious organizations and pastors to refuse participation in marriage ceremonies which violate their sincerely-held religious beliefs. The Governor said he will sign a bill that offers such protection to pastors and ministers.
The Texas State Senate on Tuesday passed an omnibus bill including many of the initiatives from Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s emergency item on ethics reform. In his State of the State Address in February, the Governor repeated a campaign promise to address transparency and ethics in Texas government. Tuesday marked delivery on that promise.
Long gone are the days when ending a love connection means a lot of name calling and bad-mouthing. Now, breaking up has gotten a whole lot harder to do in a “selfie-driven” social media age where a jilted ex-lover can plaster X-rated photos of that formerly dearly beloved all over the internet. It is called “revenge porn” and it turns private citizens into accidental overnight porn stars. Texas has a few bills gaining traction in the state legislature to stop the widespread malicious cyber-madness.
