After a more than eight-hour speech by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy attempting to derail Biden’s Build Back Better Act, House Democrats finally passed the massive social spending bill Friday morning. Congressional Texas Democrats are touting the passage...
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back to archiveDigital ad targets Beth Van Duyne for helping inspire Capitol attack
The campaign arm of the 38-member Congressional Hispanic Caucus, BOLD PAC, announced this week the release of a political ad against Rep. Beth Van Duyne of Irving. The 30-second digital ad titled “Spreading Lies,” goes after Van Duyne for her vote against...
Shape-shifting GOP candidate continues Texas tradition of pretending to be cowboy
It took less than five months for Dan Rodimer, a former professional wrestler and failed Republican candidate in Nevada, to reinvent himself from a soft-spoken Lacoste polo-wearing family man to a “Texas tough” bull-riding cowboy. The spectacular transformation can...
Rep. Filemon Vela says he won’t seek reelection
Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Brownsville) will not be seeking re-election, a spokesperson for the lawmaker confirmed to Axios on Monday. Filemon has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected in 2020 with a 13.5 percent margin over his Republican opponent. ...
Dan Crenshaw bought Boeing stocks as pandemic struck, report finds
A new bombshell report by The Daily Beast has found that Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Houston) purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock during the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Crenshaw purchased stock from Amazon, Southwest, Boeing, and...
Pentagon watchdog issues scathing report on Rep. Ronny Jackson
On Wednesday, the Department of Defense a scathing review of Rep. Ronny Jackson’s conduct when he was the top White House physician during the Obama and Trump administrations. Jackson, a staunch Trump ally, currently represents Texas 13th Congressional District which...
Louie Gohmert fined for bypassing security
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tyler) is among the first members of Congress to be punished for violating new security measures. Gohmert, along with Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), has been fined $5,000 for bypassing newly-installed metal detectors as they entered the House floor. ...
Al Green calls for additional security for members of Congress
In the wake of the January 6th Insurrection, Rep. Al Green (D-Houston) is sponsoring a bipartisan resolution to beef up congressional security. The resolution, which was cosponsored with Rep. David Schweikert (R-Arizona), increases funding to ensure the safety of...
Dan ‘Georgia Reloaded’ Crenshaw says country must deescalate
One month after starring in a political ad where he jumps out of a plane to beat the shit out of Antifa (other Americans), Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Houston says the country "must tone down the rhetoric and calm tensions.” Crenshaw’s plea for cooler heads came as part of a...