As Texas students tackle their first weeks of school, we are reminded that today’s graduates are increasingly facing a future of unemployment, declining wages, and mounds of student loan debt. Recent graduates from traditional four year universities continue to find their employment options limited; yet, just this month, the Bureau of Labor… Read more »

The threat of an active shooter is increasingly real. Sadly, Central Texans and all Americans are all too familiar with responding to active shooters.  The deadly attacks in Killeen, Fort Hood, Dallas, joined with the tragic events outside of Texas, including those in San Bernardino, Sandy Hook, and Virginia Tech, are all cruel reminders of the threat active shooters are to… Read more »

From Nice to Brussels, to San Bernardino, and beyond, the Western world has been hit too many times by ISIS terrorists and its sympathizers. I will continue to pray for the victims and families of these heinous attacks, but it is increasingly disheartening that the murderous thugs that commit these acts have faced no robust or strategic recourse for their actions. We cannot just wish and… Read more »

The threat of an active shooter is increasingly real. Sadly, Central Texas is all too familiar with responding to active shooters.  The deadly attacks in Killeen and Fort Hood, joined with the tragic events outside of Texas, including those in San Bernardino, Sandy Hook, Washington, D.C., and Virginia Tech, are all cruel reminders of the threat active shooters are to… Read more »

During their recent sit-in on the House floor, Democrats used obstructionist methods, fear, and chants of “No fly no buy” to try to strip the fundamental right of Americans to bear arms.  While the commitment to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists and criminals is shared across party lines, we must steer clear of catchy slogans that don’t address the real… Read more »

This week, the House will take up and is expected to pass the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Defense appropriations bill. This bill funds all Department of Defense (DoD) activities, US intelligence operations and the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account. Read more »

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This is not a joke: the president wants to house illegal aliens on our nation’s military installations. I won’t stand for it and have introduced the Resist Executive Amnesty on Defense Installations Act, which will prohibit any illegal alien from being housed on a military installation within the United States.With the growing global threats of terrorism, how could any… Read more »

By John R. CarterFollowing the 2009 Fort Hood terror attack, I fought against the executive branch and its bureaucrats for five years to secure Purple Hearts and benefits for those wounded and killed. It was a hard-fought battle against the Obama Administration, but in the end, justice prevailed. Both the survivors and victims of that dark day deserve no less. Read more »

By John R. Carter As we all know, Texans know how to educate Texans best. I'm fed up with the so called ‘Washington-knows-best' approach that has plagued K-12 classrooms for years. Read more »