Blake Farenthold

As a conservative who wants to shrink the size of government, that really rubs me the wrong way.

I think way too many decisions here in Washington are made on anecdotal information and not scientific information.

I thank Chairman Sessions for yielding. Mr. Speaker, as I was walking up to the Capitol from the Metro station just a few minutes ago, I remembered just a couple weeks ago I was boarding up my house and preparing for Hurricane Harvey…

I am here today to ask my colleagues to support funding for Hurricane Harvey disaster relief. Often, the TV news goes around taking their cameras seeking the worst damage to create the most dramatic story. In the case of Hurricane Harvey…

I am here today to recognize a great American patriot, Captain Steve Banta, call-sign ``Slash,'' who will be retiring this week from his post as commanding officer of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. A 1991 graduate of the United States…

Every year, I have the pleasure of nominating outstanding young men and women from the 27th Congressional District of Texas to the United States military service academies. Recently, I held a lunch for this year's ten appointees and their…

I was walking along the Cannon tunnel and was looking at all of the art from the Congressional Art Competition. As Members know, each year, thousands of high school students from every congressional district submit their artwork to their…

There is a lack of transparency in corporate governance in post-confirmation trusts in general.

On May 25, 2017, Chairman Goodlatte wrote a letter to the Attorney General alerting him to the potential opportunity for the DOJ to recover $380 million in taxpayer dollars that the Obama administration improperly handed to their political…

I worry about Washington bureaucrats coming up with regulations from the top down, and like to see stuff actually come from the bottom up.

Since first being elected to Congress, I have been fighting for our veterans to get the care they were promised and earned. After hearing veterans tell horror story after horror story of long wait times, canceled appointments, and having…

I would like to congratulate the Corpus Christi students from the CITGO Innovation Academy for Engineering, Environmental & Marine Science at Moody High School for winning two awards at the Marine Advanced Technology Education…

Soldiers from south Texas were instrumental in the United States victory during World War I. With the 100th anniversary of World War I quickly approaching, I would like to take a minute to thank our veterans, especially Texas veterans, for…

I would also like to highlight how important our relationship with Israel is, and how our ally in the Middle East is a huge asset to our Nation and the world. Israel is a beacon of democracy in a sea of turbulence. It is a success story of…

Under current practice, if a veteran or beneficiary is appointed a fiduciary by the VA, they are automatically labeled as mentally defective and added to the FBI's background check system which prohibits them from purchasing a firearm…

I want to address the fact that there have been numerous hearings on the FACT Act and the problems associated with it. There was one hearing before the Judiciary Committee on the Constitution on September 9, 2011. There were three…

The FACT Act requires that a very basic amount of information be released to protect against fraud against the asbestos trust system. I am standing with future victims of asbestos. The diseases associated with asbestos typically don't…

I am not sure how this bill applies to government ethics at all. This bill is a simple bill that tells trial lawyers not to sue innocent local people in businesses just so they can forum shop. It tells them that all they have got to do is…

In the gentleman from Georgia's example, this bill wouldn't apply at all. If my grandmother were assaulted in a nursing home, I would certainly sue the nursing home company. I would also join the person who actually did it who most likely…

Since this bill was marked up in the last Congress, the very same plausibility standard used in this bill was adopted by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in which fraudulent joinder cases arise with the greatest frequency. Last…

The FACT Act is designed to require increased transparency to combat fraud committed against asbestos trusts. This amendment strikes the requirement that asbestos trusts publish the very data that is necessary to detect fraud between the…

I am going to have to beg to differ with my colleague from across the aisle. Fraud has been documented in news reports, State court cases, and in testimony before the Judiciary Committee. The Wall Street Journal conducted an investigation…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, recently an independent research firm surveyed companies in 26 countries and found that 80 percent of those companies that were subject to class action lawsuits were U.S. companies…

I claim the time in opposition. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes.

I am not going to get sucked into a debate of hydraulic fracking. Being from Texas, we might have a whole difference of opinion on that. But I do want to point out, with respect to this bill, it doesn't deny anyone access to courts, it…