Jake Ellzey: “Bureaucratic regulations and red tape hurt small businesses.”

Today, I rise in strong support of this bill as a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. I commend Chairman Calvert and his team behind us for legislation that makes investments in our national defense. This bill invests in…

They outlive those of us at this dais and they outlive administrations.

It's a community that works together. It's a community that worships together. It's a community that prays together.

The first job of any government, municipal, State, Federal, is to protect her citizens. I begin this speech by saying we are not protecting our citizens, particularly on the southern border of which Texas is the front line in a battle to…