We'll get to work on these five excellent Texas Senate Local Government interim charges as assigned by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick! Starting with reporting on the record property tax reduction bill #SB2 , and making future recommendations. These charges also cover #ETJ , #UBI , Housing…

Today, based upon an opinion letter I sent to Attorney General Paxton (texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/…), the AOG filed a lawsuit against the clearly Unconstitutional Universal Basic Income, UBI, program started by the leftist progressive majority on Harris County Commissioners Court.…

A happy day to be invited to our longtime friends Ed and Jean Johnson's granddaughter Jean’s Christening. Her mother, Hope, you will remember, sang the Star Bangled Banner at numerous State and Harris County Conventions, so congrats to Hope, Preston, and, 🙏 of course, Baby…

It comes as no surprise that the Joe Biden Administration is going 0 for 3 on energy policy because they spend money on everything except filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. They can spend money on everything else and get 34 Trillion dollars of debt, but apparently don't…

What a MAX crowd I got to introduce Governor (for today) Dan Patrick to at the TCCRI 2024 #PolicyForum ! He fights across the board against Leftist Progressives policy!

Keynote speaker Gov. Mike Huckabee did a fantastic job at highlighting the polarizing lines that are being drawn…

This Harris County 'Uplift' Program I have already called 'Lottery Socialism' as it is a no strings attached giveaway of $9k to a lucky 1.9k winners out of 82,000 applicants in selected zip codes! As Chair of the Senate Local Government, I have requested an opinion from Attorney…

🚨From the President of the Heritage Foundation Foundation and long-time friend at Texas Public Policy Foundation, Kevin Roberts shows what autopilot spending is doing to devour the Federal Budget. (See the graph from E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.)

By 2029, interest is 14%, mandatory spending 62%, and the remainder 25% is…

I hope this serves as a warning to all those in Government foolish enough to ignore the fact that public information is the public's! More #txlege coming!!

'Some of the witnesses hadn't been interviewed since the Obama Adminstration,' said lead Special Prosecutor Brian Wice and another Attorney General Ken Paxton national media-driven prosecution evaporates when the 'evidence' is put under scrutiny!

Wisely, Chair Sen. Brian Birdwell and Lt.…

Super strong, tell it like it is, interview by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick on Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Morning Futures show about the true dangers of President Joe Biden's open border, and the Texas Senate's SB 4 trying to stop it in 2024! An incredibly important part of this public…

We had quite a big turnout of nearly five hundred grassroots Republicans for the two SD 7 conventions, including me arriving just in time from Magnolia Church of Christ to Glorious Way Church to 'Photo Bomb' Lt. Gov Dan Patrick and Harris County SD 7 Chair James Buntrock, LOL.…

TEXAS 'House rules have been selectively weaponized to selectivity punish individual members. Our Parliamentarians have played an outsized role in the legislative process...' says Representative Tom Oliverson, M.D., candidate for Texas Speaker of the House.

This has been an open…

This is a classic side-by-side view of the failed Joe Biden administration border policies by a Democrat Socialist Lina Hidalgo versus a Republican Conservative 'me,' LOL! SB4 created the 1st ever Texas offense of crossing the border illegally because the Texas Legislature is…

The war on woke continues! It was great to be a part of the 'Winning the War on Woke' panel at Texas Public Policy Foundation's #TexasPolicySummit , moderated by Sherry Sylvester. I was joined on the panel by West Texas A&M President Walter Wendler WTAMU, UT Professor Dr. Justin Dyer, and ACTA President Dr.…