There's really a clash between those values, our democracy with the public's right to know, the need to receive information upon which to judge the performance of public officials.

Well, thank you all for the good work you've done modernizing the background check system.

this week, the Senate is expected to vote on legislation that would repeal the authorization for use of military force in Iraq. The bill before the Senate would repeal two separate authorizations-- one from 1991, which authorized U.S…

I don't believe any more legislation will move on the issue in the next two years.

every day, I hear from my constituents, the people I represent in Texas--some of the 30 million people I have the honor of representing--and they ask me why they aren't seeing more solutions offered by the U.S. Congress to the problems…

I want to just say the one thing I would congratulate the Biden administration on is their commitment to implement the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

I would like to ask if you will be willing to work with us--particularly the chairman, the ranking member, who obviously will set the agenda--in working on all of these issues as part of the same problem.

families and businesses across the country are worried about the safety and stability of our banking system. Two weeks ago, Silicon Valley Bank--a bank that many people had never heard of--rocketed from relative obscurity to infamy when it…

I want to just say the one thing I would congratulate the Biden administration on is their commitment to implement the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

Do you believe we have a public health crisis when it comes to these overdose deaths?

But we made the single largest investment in community-based mental health care in American history.

But we made the single largest investment in community-based mental health care in American history.