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- TEXAS TOUGH: Lone Star Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping Border Reform 'by Texans for Texans'
- Heroes who care for vulnerable Texans deserve competitive wages now
- Texas Republicans unveil sweeping border framework ‘by Texans for Texas’
- Congress Needs to Live Up to Its Promises
- More on Border Security
- Rep. Chip Roy joins House Republican leaders urging State Legislatures to ensure election integrity
Roy, along with other Senate and House conservatives, have been calling for the Senate Democrats and Biden to crack down on the flow of migrants in the country. The dispute has delayed a supplemental funding bill that includes aid for Ukraine and Israel. House hard-liners, like Roy, have opposed more aid for Ukraine. Some have recently shown interest in giving support to Ukraine if Congress passes their preferred border bill, H.R.
TEXAS TOUGH: Lone Star Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping Border Reform 'by Texans for Texans'
The agreement – negotiated by Independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Republican James Lankford of Oklahoma and Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut – dropped on Sunday evening. The legislation would require the Department of Homeland Security to “shut down” the US-Mexico border when it records an average of 5,000 migrants crossing per day for a week. Speaking in the lower chamber of Congress on Tuesday, Rep Roy specifically called out the former president.
Heroes who care for vulnerable Texans deserve competitive wages now
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth, has also been supportive of Ukraine. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, signaled support for the legislation when he described the Ukraine aid as "critical funding while also safeguarding American generosity” in a House Committee on Rules meeting Thursday. We're here today because of the abject failure of the administration to do its fundamental duty to protect the United States. We have a wide-open border — empowering cartels, empowering China, to the detriment of the American citizens and to the migrants that seek to come here — supposedly, in the name of compassion. But I would acknowledge President Trump failed, along with Republicans Paul Ryan and the guys. They failed in 2018 to actually move a border security bill to tighten this so that we weren’t dealing with this crisis right now.
Texas Republicans unveil sweeping border framework ‘by Texans for Texas’
A border deal to nowhere? House GOP ready to reject Senate compromise on immigration - CNN
A border deal to nowhere? House GOP ready to reject Senate compromise on immigration.
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2 – the Secure the Border Act of 2023 – and the Texas Border Plan in any border security negotiations. WASHINGTON, DC — On Monday, Representatives Chip Roy (TX-21) and Bob Good (VA-05) led a group of 43 House Republicans calling on their GOP colleagues to use the power of the purse in the upcoming appropriations package to stop Biden’s open borders policies. In his floor speech hours after that vote, Roy urged Republicans to refocus on border security policy. Trump’s comments in a social media post Tuesday came after House Republicans shut down a bipartisan Senate border security bill, claiming President Biden should instead unilaterally stop all migrants from entering the U.S. using executive orders.
Congress Needs to Live Up to Its Promises
The GOP has focused its scorn on Mayorkas and has threatened to impeach him over border security failures. The administration has denounced the efforts as political theater. “Our people — law enforcement, ranchers, local leaders — are tired of meetings, speeches, and press conferences,” Roy said in a letter obtained by The Hill. "Impeaching Secretary Mayorkas is our duty," Rep. Roy continued. "We should call for it now – despite Democrat control of the House – and make the case for immediate border security better than any speeches we can give or bills we can introduce." Since Mayorkas took office, Rep. Roy’s “Dear Colleague” letter and attached memo explain, DHS has experienced record-high illegal migrant encounters, attempted drug smugglings, and record-low morale among the men and women of Border Patrol.
In addition, the Electors Clause in Article II of the U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures the power to determine the manner of appointing presidential electors. These provisions, in addition to fundamental principles of federalism, make clear that state legislatures have preeminent authority to promulgate their own election law and to administer elections for federal office. Our southern border is on fire due to the Biden administration’s willful refusal to obey the law and Americans like Laken Riley are dying as a consequence. We are adding $1 trillion to the debt every 100 days due to unbridled federal spending and inflation is still eating away at American paychecks. In the face of that, Republicans inexplicably choose to advance a package representing more of the same uniparty legislating that got us in this situation.
Chip Roy to skip House GOP border trip, says Texas is 'tired' of 'press conferences' - Fox News
Chip Roy to skip House GOP border trip, says Texas is 'tired' of 'press conferences'.
Posted: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Why are we giving more money to Alejandro Mayorkas while we go to the cameras and talk about impeaching, impeaching him so we can score points in campaigns rather than doing our job to use the power of the purse that James Madison articulated was our power to stop and out of control of the executive. So that’s what I think we ought to do,” Roy told Cavuto. In his latest dust-up in the House, Roy vehemently opposed a bipartisan $1.59 trillion deal brokered by House and Senate leaders to keep the government funded past next Friday, when funding for a host of programs expires. The bill would cap discretionary spending at last fiscal year’s levels and would include a drastic cut in planned IRS funding — a major Republican priority. A House vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas unexpectedly failed Tuesday, after Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) joined two other Republicans in voting against it, and Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) surprisingly attended to vote despite a recent surgery.
Republicans in Congress sought to highlight the problems with these last-minute changes to state election administration. Among other issues, Republicans warned of errors with voter registration rolls and lack of preparedness for mail-in ballots and uncovered issues with signature matching and verification, slow ballot processing and counting, questionable practices for ballot drop boxes, and extreme ballot receipt deadlines. On September 23, 2020, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Reform Committee released a report detailing the Democrats' efforts at sowing uncertainty, inaccuracy, and delay in the 2020 general election. As a matter of policy and principle, I strongly support providing aid to our friend and ally Israel to support them generally, and particularly in the wake of Hamas’ barbaric terror attack and Iran’s recent strike. I was proud to pass Israel funding in November, fully paid for – and was prepared to advance an Israel-only bill now to stand with Israel.
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"I stand with Chip and am honored to have his support. The time for talking is over. We must stop the invasion, and I will get it done," DeSantis added. However, the filing deadline for the Texas primary election ended on December 11, meaning that no other Republicans can challenge Roy, as Trump suggested. Customs and Border Protection shows that there have been more than 2.4 million migrant encounters at southern borders across the U.S. so far in 2023. This number is an increase from the previous two fiscal years, which recorded 2.3 million in 2022 and 1.7 million in 2021.
This is not the first time Roy and Trump have criticized each other, as the Republican representative previously criticized the former president's actions following the January 6 riots. The WSJ editorial board, which dubbed the list of the 14 House Republicans "the dishonor roll," claimed that the nation and the GOP "dodged a geopolitical disaster on Saturday with the House passage of military aid to allies in Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific." Johnson, who has previously voted against Ukraine aid, said Wednesday that he was not worried about losing his job over bringing the bill. He also acknowledged that at this time, “all indications” show the bill has no chance of advancing in either the House or Senate, and laid out the “simple reason” Republicans are blocking the bill.
We are doing the job the President refuses to do – the American people know it. They're going to see it, and my Democratic colleagues are going to suffer the consequences for this abject failure. Ballot harvesting is a practice in which anyone can pick up a voter's ballot and deliver it to a polling place. In the 2018 midterm election, paid political operatives in some states exploited the system by pressuring voters to vote by mail and then assisting them in filling out their ballots.
However, the Israel aid package was paired to gain Democrat support with over $9 billion in humanitarian aid to Gaza and other areas, which will certainly and inevitably find its way into the hands of Hamas — effectively funding both sides of the war and undermining Israel. Therefore, I was unfortunately forced to vote no on this measure, a position only reinforced when AIPAC scored the “rule” vote to proceed to the total package, despite the aforementioned aid to Hamas and the lack of border protection for America in the package. Of course, the fact that the funding package includes defense spending means many will rationalize a “yes” vote “for the troops.” Even setting aside the border, the power of the purse should also be used to stop the radical politicization of the Department of Defense.
The National Voter Registration Act requires states to have a voter registration list maintenance program. Despite this requirement, some voter rolls are notoriously inaccurate. According to one study, at the beginning of 2020, voter registration rates exceeded 100 percent of the eligible populations in 378 counties across the United States. Inaccurate or outdated voter registration rolls increase the risk for election crime or administrative error.
One of the most vocal critics of the bill — credited with tanking the legislation by calling around to loyalist lawmakers to persuade them to vote against it despite Republicans specifically asking for such legislation — is Mr Trump. The president of Guatemala confirming 80,000 Venezuelan migrants are traveling to the US ahead of Title 42’s expiration. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said he estimated 60,000 to 65,000 migrants are in northern Mexico. But Republicans are standing up strongly to make sure that this country will stand for the rule of law that sets our country apart around the globe and attracts so many to want to come here. Dead migrants lying along the Rio Grande and in ranches in South Texas. The extent to which migrants suffer in the Texas heat, 53 dying in a tractor trailer last summer in San Antonio.
With the foreign aid in deadlock, some conservatives hope to attach some border security provisions onto regular government funding legislation. In the 2020 general election, many states moved to universal mail-in voting, in which election officials mailed unsolicited ballots to all registered voters in the jurisdiction. This occurred despite the refusal of some states to conduct meaningful list maintenance, increasing the likelihood that these live ballots would be received by someone other than the voter. Unlike traditional absentee voting, where a voter solicits and expects to receive a ballot by mail, the registered voter in a universal mail-in voting system is not necessarily expecting to receive the ballot and may not notice if it does not arrive. This break in the chain of custody for a voter's mailed-in ballot, coupled with some states' use of unmaintained voter registration lists, introduces greater risk of election crime or administrative error.
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