Cruz bill would keep out Americans who join ISIS
Amid growing alarm over reports of Islamic State militants heading to Iraq and Syria with U.S. and other Western passports, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz plans to introduce a bill next week that would make those...
View ArticleAd war spending heats up Texas’ premier congressional race
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the political arm of Republicans in Congress, has booked $613,225 worth of television time in San Antonio and its environs to defeat first-term...
View ArticleRio Grande Valley gets federal help for space industry and trade
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced Monday that the department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.2 million to the University of Texas at Brownsville to help...
View ArticleGallego extends his money lead over Hurd in Texas’ premier congressional race
With a week to go before early voting, Democratic incumbent Pete Gallego is outpacing GOP challenger Will Hurd in the money chase in Texas’ premier congressional battleground district. Gallego, in his...
View Article‘Moderate’ is a fighting word in west Texas U.S. House race
The ad war is anything but moderate in Texas’ only truly competitive congressional race between Democratic incumbent Pete Gallego and Republican challenger Will Hurd. The Hurd campaign cried foul...
View ArticleNASA silent on Smith request for information
On Aug. 27, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, chairman of the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee, wrote to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden asking for a status report on the new Space...
View ArticleAlameel to wary Texas Democrats: ‘This is just the beginning’
Texas U.S. Senate hopeful David Alameel, who lost to incumbent Republican John Cornyn by a 27-point margin on Nov. 4, is giving no indication of fading away. In an email Tuesday providing excerpts of...
View ArticleStockman, aides get federal grand jury subpoenas
Retiring U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman and three of his Capitol Hill aides notified Congress on Wednesday that they have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in an ongoing criminal investigation.
View ArticleCornyn wins No. 2 spot in the Republican-led U.S. Senate
To the surprise of no one, Texas U.S. Sen. John Cornyn was selected the Senate Republican Whip for the 114th Congress, making him the No. 2 to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Cornyn...
View ArticleCruz invokes oratory of Cicero against Obama’s immigration order
If Sen. Ted Cruz’s speech had a familiar ring Thursday when he attacked President Obama’s executive order on immigration, it’s because the words were adapted from Cicero’s famous oratory against the...
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