House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday that a Republican bill to replace President Obama’s bank rules headed to the House floor next week will end bailouts and “too-big-to-fail” banks. “It will rein in the overreach of Dodd-Frank that has allowed the big banks to get bigger while small businesses have been unable to get the […]
I released the following statement in response to President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal: As a fiscal conservative, one of my top priorities has always been to scale down our bloated budget and get our fiscal house in order. While I agree with some of the over-arching principles of President Trump’s budget proposal – balancing in […]
The Obama administration knowingly let in at least 16 admitted MS-13 gang members who arrived at the U.S. as illegal immigrant teenagers in 2014, a top senator said Wednesday, citing internal documents that showed the teens were shipped to juvenile homes throughout the country. Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said […]
GRAND PRAIRIE – New audio recordings suggest a local campaign worker plotted to use absentee ballots to help a friend on the school board unseat the current mayor. “This town ain’t for sale,” said Mayor Ron Jensen after listening to the recordings with WFAA. Sidney Williams, 33, secretly recorded conversations late last month with fellow […]
DALLAS – The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office has secret audio recordings in which a campaign worker claims he pays off someone inside the county elections to find out when mail-in ballots get sent out. Sidney Williams, 33, made the audio recordings of Jose Barrientos. Williams shared the audio with the Dallas County District Attorney’s […]
Turning up the heat on killer gangs tied to illegals, immigration officials on Thursday announced their biggest raid yet, the arrest of 1,378, including several on murder, drug and sex trafficking charges. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations said it just concluded a six week anti-gang operation with the arrests and called it […]
As Chairman of the House Committee on Rules, I recently released the following statement in support of a measure to allow private-sector employers to offer employees the choice of paid time off in lieu of cash wages for overtime hours worked: Our work force has changed dramatically over the years. Whether employees are balancing a full […]
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) said Monday that congressional efforts this week to fund the government could include appropriations for President Trump’s proposed border wall. Sessions, the chairman of the House Rules Committee, acknowledged that putting the wall in a government funding bill would likely nix all Democratic support. “It would be a Republican-only bill. I’d […]
By Jack Fink DALLAS (CBS11) – Lt. Governor Dan Patrick blasted Dallas County Commissioners one day after they approved a controversial ruling that welcomes undocumented immigrants. The Commissioners Court voted for the non-binding “Welcome Communities” resolution 4-1 along party lines. In an interview via Skype, the Lt. Governor said, “What is it that they don’t […]
DALLAS, TX – Pete Sessions, representative of the 32nd Congressional District of Texas, released the following statement in response to actions taken by President Trump to make our country safer: “After eight years of a president who refused to even acknowledge terrorists for what they are – radical Islamic terrorists – I am happy that […]
