Last week, the President embraced a part of health care reform that I have long been fighting for on a national level: medical liability reform. We know a thing or two about this subject in Texas. Ten years ago, we faced a terrible shortage of doctors ...
The Supreme Court has now decided Ricci v. DeStefano, commonly known as the New Haven firefighter case. The Supreme Court reversed the lower court decision that was joined by Judge Sotomayor. The Second Circuit saw the case as an easy victory of for ...
President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors recently released a 51-page report titled “The Economic Case for Health Care Reform” [pdf here] detailing how health care reform is needed to rescue our economy. We can all agree that our health care ...
Last week, President Barack Obama provided more details about his proposals to raise taxes on American companies doing business overseas. The administration seeks ever more revenue to help feed a voracious federal bureaucracy, but its proposals are ...
Last night, by a single vote, Senate Republicans barely blocked the passage of the pork-laden $410 billion omnibus spending bill. Late in the evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acknowledged that with 59 votes, he was just one short of the 60 he ...
We live in an age where online communication thrives. The Internet has created countless new opportunities for commerce and communication. With that progress, unfortunately, comes exploitation by some, including criminals looking to do harm. For ...
Fiscal restraint is a worthy and necessary practice in our federal government, and I welcomed the chance to participate in the White House’s Fiscal Responsibility Summit this week. Many that attended the Summit expressed their support for restraining ...
More than two years after they were sentenced, former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean still sit in federal prison for their actions in attempting to apprehend a drug runner who was smuggling 743 pounds of marijuana valued at $1.2 ...
I respectifully disagree. Americans need to go through a major deleveraging process. I predict this massive bailout plan will fail miserably. What if this plan has no impact on the credit markets? Will Washington politicians make another excuse for ...
In recent weeks, as the American people have continued to grapple with a slowing economy and instability on Wall Street, the response to calls for a sweeping economic stabilization plan has understandably been one of anger and frustration. I share that ...
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