Category: News Highlights

Rep. Pfluger Reacts to Top Immigration Official’s Call for Congress to Act on Border Crisis

Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) on Tuesday questioned Assistant Secretary for Border and Immigration Policy Blas Nuñez-Neto at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing called “Examining DHS’ Failure to Prepare for the Termination of Title 42.” …


White House Provides Update Following Biden’s Fall at Air Force Graduation

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked on Friday about President Joe Biden’s trip and fall at the Air Force Academy graduation, one day after the incident happened. …


Trump Reacts to Biden’s Fall at Air Force Academy

Former President Donald Trump said he hoped President Joe Biden “wasn’t hurt” after he tripped and fell after handing out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy on Thursday. Speaking during a stop at a volunteer training session in Grimes, Iowa, the former president was told about Biden’s spill…


Sen. Hagerty Criticizes Biden Admin for ‘Decreasing Actions’ Against Chinese Spy Activities

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday grilled Thea D. Rozman Kendler, assistant secretary for export administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce, on the Biden administration’s responses to China’s increasing spy activities against the United States at a Senate Banking Committee hearing. …


‘You Know the Answer!’–Sen. Kennedy Grills Treasury Official on Biden Admin Forgiving Foreign Debt

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) questioned Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Elizabeth Rosenberg about the Biden administration’s intention to forgive foreign countries and entities of debts they owe to the United States at Wednesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing. …


Rep. Smithee Compares 3 Impeachments in Texas History, Emphasizes Due Process

The Republican-controlled Texas House on Saturday voted to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, which makes Paxton only the third sitting official in Texas’s history to have been impeached. On the House floor before the vote, Rep. John Smithee (R) compared the three impeachments and called for due process. …


Rep. Smithee Compares Three Impeachments in Texas History, Emphasizes Due Process

The Republican-controlled Texas House on Saturday voted to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, which makes Paxton only the third sitting official in Texas’s history to have been impeached. On the House floor before the vote, Rep. John Smithee (R) compared the three impeachments and called for due process. …


Impeachment of Texas AG Paxton Made Without Subpoenaing Donor at Heart of Allegations

Texas Reps. Matt Schaefer (R) and Tony Tinderholt (R) on Saturday questioned Andrew Murr, the Republican who led the committee that investigated Attorney General Ken Paxton and brought the impeachment resolution to the floor, about due process in the case. …


Riley Gaines Recalls Being Barricaded and Assaulted, Calls Out Karine Jean-Pierre

Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) questioned Riley Gaines, a spokeswoman of the Independent Women’s Forum, at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing held last week. During the questioning, Gaines recalled being held hostage by hundreds of people who tried to stop her from giving a speech. She also said that the protesters kept chanting, and the…


Rep. Pfluger ‘Speechless’ at Top FBI Official Not Reading Durham Report

Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, questioned Jill M. Murphy, deputy assistant director of counterintelligence at the FBI, during a hearing on May 23. He said he was “speechless” when Murphy admitted that she had not read the Durham report, which was released more than…