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Jul 18, 2018--Today, Citizens Against Government Waste released its , the 26th edition of the group's expose on pork-barrel spending. CAGW President Tom Schatz was joined at the Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. by Sens. Jeff Flake , Ted Cruz and Joni Ernst , Republican Study Committee Chairman Mark Walker , and Reps.
If you're looking for tea leaves to read about the upcoming election, 2nd quarter fundraising numbers in Texas offer a plausible source of optimism: There are few bigger warning signs for a member of Congress that their re-election may be in doubt than when a challenger outraises them. In Texas, it just happened to seven incumbents, all Republicans.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz issued the following statement in response to the terrorist organization Hamas firing rockets and mortars into Israel: "The Palestinian terror group Hamas fired over 100 rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians today, sending tens of thousands of men, women, and children running into bomb shelters. These are the latest in what have become near-daily attacks by Iran-backed terrorists and forces on Israel's northern and southern borders.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings to be a Supreme Court justice will take place in the shadow of the nomination of John Roberts to be chief justice 13 years ago. Roberts was confirmed on a 78-22 vote in 2005.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt after pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. Pruitt resigned on Thursday.
This week on State of Texas: lawmakers discuss "red flag" laws and mental health as part of ongoing school safety hearings, a University of Texas pollster examines how Texans feel about the root cause of school shootings and a new look at the significance of the Wendy Davis abortion filibuster, five years later. With the Santa Fe shooting still fresh in the minds of Texans, House members held a new round of school safety hearings.
A man in his underwear was captured on video running in a restricted area of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on June 26, 2018. For one teenager who fled violence in El Salvador on his own in 2014, the days he spent in a Texas border detention center were some of the worst of his life.
SAN FRANCISCO California technology analyst Brian Solis was having a conversation with a friend while the two were driving through Texas. His friend was buying a ranch in Texas but was having trouble with the financing because it was considered a "barndominium."
Struggling to find the votes to pass an immigration overhaul, House Republicans are focusing on a slimmed-down bill to stem the crisis of separating immigrant families at the border. But even that more modest measure has hit uncertainty.
House Republicans say they will make another run at immigration legislation in the coming ... WASHINGTON - Struggling to find the votes to pass a sweeping immigration overhaul, House Republicans are narrowing on a slimmed down bill to stem the crisis of separating immigrant families at the border. But even that more modest measure hit uncertainty Monday.
The president, who tweeted Sunday morning during his drive to Trump National Golf Club, went one step further than his administration's "zero-tolerance" policy, which demands that every immigrant who comes to the United States illegally should be criminally prosecuted. Trump's hasty decision last week to use an executive order to try to end family separation, which happened as a result of his administration's "zero-tolerance" policy, sparked confusion and chaos ahead of upcoming congressional votes on immigration.
Mayor Sylvester Turner called on the owner of a building east of downtown Houston and the nonprofit hoping to operate the former warehouse as a detention center for immigrant children separated from their families at the nation's southern border to reconsider their plans. The mayor also said he is in no rush to issue city permits at the site, and called on the state not to issue a childcare license to the 54,000-square-foot facility two blocks north of BBVA Compass Stadium for use by federal contractor Southwest Key Programs.
Last week, under immense public pressure, Donald Trump said they would stop separating families in immigration detention centres and create family detention centres instead to keep them all together. Former Presidential candidate, Senator Ted Cruz says they need to almost double the number of border judges, from 400 to 750, in order to speed up processing.
President Donald Trump boards the presidential limousine after arriving at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, where he said he wanted fewer immigration judges, June 23, 2018. Trump asserted on Sunday that immigrants who crossed into the United States illegally should be sent back immediately without due process or an appearance before a judge, an escalation of his attacks on the judicial system.
Now that the hype has subsided, Democrats must figure out how to use their enthusiasm to craft a winning message in a decidedly Republican state. It's clear to most of the 7,500 delegates who gathered in Fort Worth Thursday, Friday and Saturday what must be done.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, speaks while fellow Sen. John Cornyn listens as Federal officials, Lawmakers and local officials hold a roundtable at the U.S. Border Patrol station on Friday, June 22, 2018, in Weslaco. Catholic Bishop Daniel E. Flores speaks as part of a roundtable on immigrant children as federal officials, lawmakers and local officials held the round table at the U.S. Border Patrol station on Friday, June 22, 2018, in Weslaco.
They will protest the separation of migrant children from their families that occurred under the "zero tolerance" policy President Donald Trump recently agreed to end. And they will call for already separated families to be reunited.
But as he spoke for more than 20 minutes Friday night to thousands of Democrats gathered in Fort Worth for their state convention , he laid out the case for party members to elect him in November to replace Republican Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate. He said he wants to fight for those who need it most - from the migrant children taken from their parents at the state's border to cotton farmers, veterans and teachers.
Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are expected to tour immigrant detention facilities for children in South Texas and hold a roundtable at the Weslaco Border Patrol Station Friday afternoon, according to a press release from the office of Cornyn. The roundtable will include representatives from federal agencies involved in the process of receiving, detaining and adjudicating immigrant families, as well as non-profits and local elected officials.