I am honored to represent this great city and to help celebrate the 175th birthday of Corsicana.
Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress alone the authority to declare war, and I believe it is our most solemn pow...
Congress has to make the decision. Congress is in charge. There is no partnership. We make the decision. We take the vot...
I think one of the strengths we see still to this day in things like the D/ISIS coalition is the really the consistency ...
I will not vote for anything that does not put an affirmative obligation in the U.S. Congress to cast a vote to use forc...
I voted for that authorization. And though I carry the burden of that vote, not for 1 second do I regret it.
A repeal-and-replace bill should, however, retain the President's authority to target non-State actors that have the cap...
I do think operations like the 2022 strike against Al Qaeda's leader in 9/11, plotter Ayman al-Zawahiri, should be autho...
The time to pass repeal and replace of the 2001 AUMF legislation is now long overdue.
War should not be on autopilot. Congress owes our troops a clear commitment to the missions we are asking them to undert...
My preference would be to repeal or replace all the AUMFs with a new, more limited authorization scoped to the terror th...
It is simply not credible to exclude these extreme ongoing terror threats from a new counterterrorism AUMF.
The brand was Washington, D.C., not President Biden.
ISIS-K remains a top concern. ISIS-K continues to pose a threat to our country and remains engaged in global terror.
The Taliban, for all of their counterproductive and backward policies and what they are doing today, did not warrant a p...
we are going to see nearly a 30 percent reduction in investment for GOMESA
We need Congress to reassert its proper authority over the power to declare war under the Constitution.
So if we sit back as the No. 1 force, military force, in the world, we will watch in the next decade that Mandarin will ...
